Dear bravowhiskey:
Trust me, my friend, if I had found that stone, I would have wet my myself with excitement and anticipation! What you have is the find of a lifetime! The carving is definitely Jesuit, however, it's not your typical Jesuit marker, my friend. No sir! What you have in your possession is a genuine Jesuit Treasure Stone and if I were you, I would keep it's location VERY secret! That particular stone does not mark a trail so to speak, rather it marks were the actual trasure lies hidden at!
That's correct my friend, directly underneath where that stone was removed from lies a hoard of unspeakable wealth, if someone has not already discovered and removed it. From the carving on the stone, I would state offhandedly that that hidden cache consists of no less than 2/3 silver and no more than 1/3 gold. Most likely it is a 75-25% mixture or even closer to a 80-20% mix of the two, with silver being the predominate part of the cache.
I've been fortunate enough to view two of these Jesuit Treasure Stones in my lifetime and the folks who located the stones became fabously wealthy and they kept the stones as souvienirs of their fortunes. And now, to translate the secret meaning of the stone.
First, the Xs around the periphery of the stone are not actually Xs at all, rather they are crosses lying sideways and because they are lying sideways, this denotes that the bulk of the treasure trive consists mainly of silver. Each sudeways cross roughly represents about 14 troy POUNDS of silver and if the crosses went around the entire border of the stone, then this would signify a sizeable trove indeed. A 3/4 ton truck with overload rear springs would be the order of the day, I should think!
Next, are the initials carved in the center of the stone, which everyone thinks represents F.E.J. Wrong-o!!! The initials are coine Greek, my friends! The first letter is a Gamma, followed by an Epislon and lastly a Tau. In English, the initials would represent G-E-T, and together they mean Gloria Et Thesaurus, which when translated into English means GLORY AND TREASURE!
This was the motto of a very special group of Jesuit monks and it was because of this rather unique group of individulas that the Jesuits soon became known as the "Papal Elite Troops". The monks were hand selected and kept in the utmost secrecy, to the point where even their immediate superiors did not know the true task of these Papal soldiers.
When the Pope snapped His fingers, you could be sure that someone, somehwere in the world, was in for a whole lot of hurt. This particular group of Jesuits were deadly ernest about their jobs and they performed their labor with the ytmost attention to detail and they obeyed orders to the letter. They were the Vatican Assassination Squads and it has been surmised that our modern elite forces were modelled after these almost unknown warriors.
They always travelled under Papal orders and they were sent to the far reaches of Christianity to quell problems whenever and wherever they arose. Once deployed, they would carry out their assigned task and upon completion they would take all of the valuables they could lay their hands on. Once the treasure was secured they would most generally ride for the nearest coast where a ship would be lying in wait, usually just out of sight of land, awaiting for a signal. If the Papal troops did not make their intended rendevous, the ship would depart and return once more at a later, pre-determined date.
If the Jesuit hit squad in question needed to secret the treasure trove while enroute, they would do so according to a strictly defined set of codes and symbols. Among these codes were trail markers, however the markers would only lead one into the general vicinity of the trove. After arriving in the general vicinity, the recovery team would perform a yard by yard search of the terrain until they had located the actual treasure marker, just like the one shown in the above photo.
After locating the marker they merely had to dig up the treasure and continue to travel to a pre-determined port-of-call where the treasure would be sent by ship to Corsica, which was a Catholic stronghold. Owing to the remoteness of the island, the activities there could be carried out in relative secrecy without arousing the suspicions of foreign governments, such as jolly ol' England, which was famous for having her spies behind every tree and bush in Europe.
Once the trove was safely in Corsica, it would be stored in one of several castles until such time as it could be once again transported, this time to one of the many Vatican controlled banks throughout Europe, where it was distributed and put to work in the form of loans and capitol financing, thus arousing no suspicions.
The marker is obviously one from which an unrecovered treasure is located at. As a hard and fast rule, once the Vatican Recovery Team successfully recovered a trove, they took great pains to ensure that all signs and markers were properly destroyed, in order to conceal the evidence of their deeds.
Congratulations on your exciting find, my friend!
Your friend;
LAMAR
Probably nothing, but this is not modern work. Very curious to me.
