Saint William Sancto Claros: this name was taken from the holy hermit, a Scottish divine named saint, William Sancto Claris, who had travelled to France, and he lived his days in prayer and meditation, in simple hearts by healing by the well on the river Epte. This was the same river where Rollo, the Viking had come to terms with the French king. The hermit was called Sancto Claros, meaning holy or clearly/
He was apparently scandalised by the loose morals of a lady of the region! He predicted she would come to a bad end! He could not be persuaded to hold his tongue and the lady, rather confirming his view of her as a child of Satan, the old hermit had her murdered. The loquacious hermit was beheaded. And because of this, Saint Williams Sancto Claro is represented as a headless figure, holding seven heads in his hands. Once again the motives of a holy man and decapitation had surfaced. The More family had taken this new name for this headless man of great sanctity. What was this symbolic reference to the ritual decapitation of a holy man who has shown himself to be filled with the spirit of God, that is Jesus the holiest of men? When I also recall that Catherine Sinclair had married the founder of the Knights Templer. Even before the excavations beneath the Temple were complete, certain families immediately connected with the poor Knights and had chosen the symbols for themselves, which appear to confirm their knowledge of the secret head, and the ritual that have been confirmed on the body of Jesus.
From The Head of God by Keith Laidler
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