Monty Segur and the Holy Grail

1244 France: After a truce (beginning on March 1) in the siege at Montségur, four Cathar defenders escaped from the citadel perched 1,207 metres high on the granite outcrop. According to legend, they used ropes to lower themselves down the almost perpendicular slopes of the mountain, carrying with them the Holy Grail.

Their fate and destination are now the subject of myth and legend, as any reader of The Da Vinci Code knows.
A few hours later, between 205 and 225 Cathars marched down the southern slopes of the mountain where they were burned to death by the Albigensian Crusaders ...

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