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I hope by this thread to have demonstrated the crucial matter involved here in the lineage of Louis Brouquart born during the Brokaw war against Louis Treize, King of France. One cannot hope possibly to understand the Brokaw lineage without an understanding of the conflict between the Huguenot (Protestant) and Roman Catholic Church. It was relevant to the time and therefore crucial to understanding. The lineage who were responsible for the most precious relic of Catholicism, the guardians of the chalice at Bois-seigneur, which overflowed for centuries with blood in the miraculous eucharist, beyond every strenuous test and before any number of witnesses over the centuries, were a most crucial lineage to the Catholic Church. To have had half of this family become Huguenot, to turn against the authority of the Roman Church, was as great a blow to the power of the Papacy as it was a gain for the Protestant faction.
The Sires de Poupat are, of course, of the Catholic side of the Brokaw relations. I can attest absolutely to the loss which the disappearance of the miraculous host during the Revolution represented to the Church. More than the fall of the French monarchy, it fundamentally changed the Church's teaching. The loss of it and its failure to be found is incomparable to anything else in the history of Christianity. If it had been faked, it could have been faked again elsewhere later. If there had been some hidden device (there was none) then it could have been an effect reproduced. If it had been merely a trick of propaganda, then it would certainly have been worth to have it emerge again later, after the Revolution. But it did not. It was not a mere device, as the Protestant side of the family well knows. An object which overflows with blood is not something to dispose of so easily, not an object to have gone unnoticed in some plunderer's loot sack. It was not an object unknown to anyone local who would have sacked the shrine at Boisserignier either.
I am curious to know how the greatest relic in Christendom can so completely have disappeared, and the descendants of the man born to the rebelllious side of our lineage can be now so vague as to his identity or to their own origins. Is this possible? An heir to the miracle of the true eucharist, born in the year of the great battle between his faction and the regnal power of France, and intensely involved in foreign congregations in Mannheim? Whose descendants would be the only logical ones to have removed the grail from its resting place, because no faithful Catholic would have withheld it from the Church, and the Church would not have withheld it from the faithful? In whose care can it possibly be? And, keeping it from the rest of the world, can it be serious that they do not know even know who Louis is until a few years ago? I wish to exhort the Brokaw side of our family to return the holy grail to Bois-signeur-Isaac which is now designated as an exceptional inheritance, to all Christians, and to the world.
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