Da Vinci code priest is dug up, hidden from 'rapacious' relic hunters

The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | Novermber 14, 2004 | By Kim Willsher in Rennes-le-Chateau

[Vision]

Can someone sum The Da Vinci Code story up for me?

[G Larry]

For those incapable of reading the book as a novel, your time is better spent reading "The DaVinci Deception", by Erwin W. Lutzer.

[Optimus Prime]

Simply amazing. Hordes of deeply stupid people who can't tell fact from fiction.

[SteveH]

Rennes-le-Chateau alert ;-)

[baltodog]

It's just like Morse Code, only it's in Italian.

[Alouette]

These people are idiots.

Yo! It's a freakin' MADE-UP FICTION NOVEL!

[baltodog]

It's how they used to order pizza delivery before the phone.

[Vision]

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

[chemical_boy]

The last Gabriel Knight game is about the mystery of Renne les Chateua, it was pretty good

[baltodog]

Please go here:

http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/plot.html

[Dr. Frank fan]

These Oprah-watching morons who guzzled up Da Vinci Code don't seem to grasp the type of fringe looney crap that its plot was stolen from (Holy Blood, Holy Grail etc.)

I liked it when the conspiracy nonsense was made into a computer game (Gabriel Knight 3) but to go out in real life and dig up graves is just pathetic.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Some here may be interested in this FR thread of old.

The Mysteries of Rennes-Le-Chateau.

[KellyAdmirer]

No doubt someone else will come along and sum it up better, but the basic story is that this local cleric in Southeast France, Sauniere, came along in the late 1800s and stumbled on some kind of terrible secret or fortune. Supposedly, he lived in high style until his death, remodelling his little church with his own funds etc., and with no explanation of where he got the money.

One popular theory is that he stumbled upon a fortune left by a secret Christian military order such as the Templars who took their money from the Middle East and buried it in France and then conveniently forgot or were unable to dig it back up. Another is that the priest stumbled upon conclusive proof that Jesus Christ survived the Crucifixion, sailed to France and founded the French dynasty that lasted until the French Revolution. Under this theory, the Vatican would not be too happy for this to get out and bought him off. Naturally, there are all sorts of clues involving details in old paintings, gravestone inscriptions, mysterious individuals of the time and the like.

People who believe this stuff will believe anything, but there are a lot of them out there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

".. your time is better spent reading "The DaVinci Deception", by Erwin W. Lutzer."

Or THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODE by Richard Abanes.

Harvest House Publishers.

[Telit Likitis]

"Although many villagers believe that there was no need to move the priest's body, at the request of his descendants it has been reburied in the grounds of the museum that adjoins the church."

Just an anomaly noted in passing.

[Glenn]

Who was on the grassy knoll?

[Vision]

Thank You

[A.A. Cunningham]

Dan Brown's heady mix of fiction, fact and legend has sold more than nine million copies in 42 languages.

Nine million suckers.

[PLK]

It's a well-written book but it's a novel, not a historical document. It astonishes me that some readers get to the end and think it's true.

People can be SO stoopid. At the cafeteria table at work one day, some co-workers were discussing the book "Lovely Bones." One of the women actually said she loved the book, and "I never realized heaven would be like that."

Hello? It's fiction, a storybook for cryin' out loud!! No wonder a goof like Michael Moore can have his way with people.