Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggested that Jesus Christ was married and that his descendents carried his bloodline to Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it. Instead, as she researched the subject, she found new and compelling evidence for the existence of the bride of Jesus—the same enigmatic woman who anointed him with precious unguent from her “alabaster jar”—as well as for the hidden “Church of the Grail.” Starbird was becoming convinced that the wife of Jesus was indeed the “Sangraal,” the bearer of the holy bloodline—the mythical chalice, the Holy Grail.