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Silas arrives at Saint Sulpice thinking he found the location he was looking for: the keystone.
Saint-Sulpice is a Roman Catholic churchin the Luxembourg Quarter of the 6th arrondissement. At 113 metres long, 58 metres in width and 34 metres tall, it is the second largest church in the city.
Although the real exterior is seen, the interior was digitally recreated in the studio using green screen technology. The brass meridian line is real but it was never known as the 'Rose Line' and has nothing to do with temples. The letters P and S in the small round windows at both ends of the transept refer not to the 'Priory of Sion', but to Peter and Sulpice, the patron saints of the church.
Église Saint-Sulpice
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A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
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