Mysteries of the Valley of Gold: Orval

In Q13, C10 soldiers are hidden – their arms are making noises – beneath the food of ruminating animals (hay, for example). The animals lead the soldiers to a subterranean place or a city with a name that has “grass”, “herb” or “weed” in it. On Friday 13 October 1307, immediately after the arrests of the Templars in their Paris headquarters, the agents of the French King discovered that the Templar treasure had vanished, and so had almost the entire Templar fleet. A Templar sergeant confessed that the Order was tipped off about the arrests. A small group of knights managed to sneak the treasure out of Paris in three carts covered with hay. They fled to La Rochelle, a port on the Atlantic coast, destination unknown.

Nostradamus in Orval

It is known Nostradamus spent some time in the castle of Fain, one hour’s walk from Orval. And he also spent some time in the abbey. The French writer Patrick Ferté believes Nostradamus was known as the “Solitaire d’Orval”, a prophet who predicted the coming of the Great Monarch which also shows up in Nostradamus’ Centuries. However, during the French Revolution this Great Monarch also was – and still is – the hotel in Varennes where Louis XVI got arrested!

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Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln – and Gerard de Sède – have stated that, in Orval, Nostradamus was exposed to secret teachings, linked to Priory of Sion. He is said to have been shown an ancient and arcane book, on which he based all his subsequent work. This book was given to him in Orval and it was donated to the abbey by Mathilde, the foster-mother of Geoffrey of Bouillon.

There are three quatrains that could easily be interpreted as talking about a treasure in Orval. Q27, C1 is about a treasure that for many centuries has been gathered and was hidden beneath an oak tree that got struck by lightning. When the treasure is found, a man must die, his eye pierced by a spring. A legend says that Nostradamus often was sitting under an old oak tree, near the botanical garden of the monastery. The tree got struck by lightning but you can take a seat now on the wooden bench under another oak tree and look at the herbs in the garden…

Q66, C8 mentions an “inscription D.M. that is to be found in an ancient cave, revealed by a lamp”. And Q27, C2 tells us about a divine word, struck from the sky, and when you can’t proceed any further, you will see the “secret that is closed up with the revelation, as if one will march over it and ahead”. Well, under the oak tree, near the herb garden, you are only a few steps away from “the inscription D.M.”, and there, where the Secret is closed up with the revelation, you can walk over and ahead it.

I’m talking of the grave of Bernard De Montgaillard… Only these stones are left, but it was here the abbot was buried…

Photo by Patrick Bernauw

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