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Bishop Manuel Aringarosa - leader of Opus Dei.

Silas - an albino devotee of Catholic conservative sect Opus Dei.

Jacques Saunière - world renowned curator of the Louvre museum in Paris, later determined to be the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, a secretive group involved in the protection of the Holy Grail.

Sophie Neveu - Paris police cryptologist, granddaughter of Jacques Saunière.

Robert Langdon - Harvard professor of Religious Symbology, art historian.

Sophie is, in fact, the heir to Christ’s royal bloodline, and her family was divided and denied knowledge of one another in order to protect and conceal their true identities.Īt the conclusion of the novel, Langdon finally recognizes that the Grail is buried beneath the glass pyramids at the entrance of the Louvre. The remaining clues lead Sophie and Langdon to an ancient church in Scotland, where they find the grandmother and brother that she had long believed to be dead.

After a tense stand-off, the police arrive and Teabing is arrested. It is revealed that the mastermind behind the plot to kill Saunière was actually Teabing, who faked his own kidnapping in order to complete the subterfuge. Sophie and Langdon research the remaining clues, eventually arriving at Westminster Abbey to seek the answer to one of the final puzzles stored in the cryptex. They are again attacked by the lay monk, who works in tandem with Teabing’s manservant to kidnap Teabing, along with the cryptex.

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They follow a sequential series of clues found in the cryptex, all of which lead to more clues. The group escapes from the police who have descended on the estate, eventually making their way to London on Teabing’s private jet.

The albino lay monk responsible for Saunière’s death has followed them to the estate, and he attacks them, only to be ambushed by the disabled Teabing. Jacques Saunière is revealed as the leader of the secretive group charged with the responsibility of protecting this knowledge, the Priory of Sion. He claims that the Grail is not an object, but rather, a long-suppressed secret: Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had at least one child with her.

The pair eventually leave the bank president on the roadside and travel to the country estate of a renowned British Grail historian, Sir Leigh Teabing, who offers them more information about the history of the Grail. The bank is soon surrounded by police, and the bank president agrees to help the two escape in an armored car in order to minimize media coverage of the institution’s involvement. The box yields a strange device called a cryptex, which is used to store secret documents. They continue their search, eventually finding a golden key that they use to open a safety deposit box at a Swiss bank. Sophie and Langdon pretend to have escaped the museum by throwing a GPS tracking device planted on Langdon out a window. Saunière’s granddaughter, police cryptographer Sophie Neveu, arrives on the scene and clandestinely lures Langdon into a secret meeting, in which she reveals that he is the prime suspect and that her grandfather identified him by name in another cryptic message. Langdon is asked to assist the investigation, beginning with the cryptic messages and bizarre placement of the body, much of which the victim appears to have arranged himself in the moments before his death. He is awakened in the middle of the night by a call from Paris police, who inform him that Jacques Saunière, the famous curator of the Louvre, has been found murdered. Harvard professor Robert Langdon is in Paris presenting a lecture. Although the events outlined in the novel are the product of the author’s imagination, many of the claims and clues included in the novel have long been advanced by art historians, symbologists, and conspiracy theorists. The Da Vinci Code is a fictionalized account of the search for the Holy Grail.

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