Los Angeles, California, Release Date: 04/19/2024

Four hundred years after Shakespeare died, Renaissance history scholar and cryptanalyst Alan Green has scientifically proven that something is hidden in a large cavity in the altar stone of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England where Shakespeare is buried.

In 2011, Green covertly radar-scanned this altar stone during a performance of his musical, BARD, presented for the church elders and a small congregation. The images he took of the stone’s interior conclusively authenticate that something is hidden inside.

Holy Trinity’s Altar Stone
Circa 1208 AD, Holy Trinity Church’s “Holy of Holies” altar stone was consecrated by the
Catholic Church.

Expected Altar Stone Cavity
Every Catholic altar stone where communion is held must have a small “saint’s” cavity hewn
into it when consecrated.

Radar Scanned Altar Stone Cavity
The radar-scanned altar stone reveals an immense space hewn into the stone approximately 250 times larger than a traditional saint’s cavity.

Radar Scan Reveals Contents
The radar scan reveals differing densities and shapes of objects hidden inside the altar stone.

But why did Shakespeare have objects hidden in the altar stone? By deciphering the codes that Shakespeare placed in his monument, gravestone, and sonnet dedication, Green found that Shakespeare was a recusant Catholic who hid his true faith for fear of brutal reprisals from King James’ Protestant regime. His whole family could have faced torture should he have been given a Catholic Mass vigil at his funeral. The Bard’s only hope of salvation was to confess his Catholic faith in secret, and what better way to do that than to hide proof within his own church’s Catholic altar stone.
Shakespeare’s final decoded prayer states:

Gag my vigil/Apostatize/A heavenward/Idea hies.
Living page/Yo stigmata/I have hewn/Desiderata.

These lines mean:
Silence my public vigil./ I have to deny my faith./ But I’m praying urgently/that my plan will reach Heaven.
Page(s) are preserved here/under Christ’s cross wounds./ There I have hewn into stone what I/desire God (and the world) to know.

Green will be holding a prayer vigil in Holy Trinity Church reciting this prayer for several hours a day, six days a week, beginning Date and continuing until the end of June. He hopes that by bringing attention to Shakespeare’s last wishes, what is hidden in the altar stone will be revealed and Shakespeare’s prayer will be answered: Who was he and what did he desire all to know?

The Shakespeare Authorship Mystery, as it is commonly referred to in academic and media circles, only exists because in over four centuries no physical artifact has ever been found to conclusively prove, one way or another, the author’s identity. There are no original manuscripts. Not a play, a poem, a page, a line exists in the author’s own hand.

It should also be noted that by canonical law this altar stone is in a state of  desecration because two of its sacred ‘stigmata wound’ crosses are missing, likely hacked off during the Reformation circa 1535. First consecrated in 1208 it has not been re-consecrated since the stigmata’s disappearance. Though the Protestant church no longer answers to Rome the altar stone is nevertheless, by definition, a holy Catholic relic. Canonical law demands the materials Green has proven are inside the stone be removed and the whole altar be re-consecrated.

Alan Green’s discovery is documented in “The Stratford Heist,” https://bit.ly/StratfordHeist, and in his Gaia Network TV Series: “Shakespeare Decoded,” https://www.gaia.com/series/shakespeare-decoded.