Da Vinci Code: Book of the Year
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21 April 2005.
The Da Vinci Code was named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.The awards was broadcast on Friday April 22 on Channel 4.
With worldwide sales of more than 17 million copies and translation into 42 languages, the book has become one of the biggest sellers of all time.
It had the number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, held for 47 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a one-hour ABC News special.
It is now being made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Hanks and Sir Ian McKellen.
The novel sparked debates about the legitimacy of Western and Christian history and has enraged the Vatican ( and HERE) and been derided by highbrow literary critics.
The Da Vinci Code is a quasi-historical thriller which claims Leonardo Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper holds the key to the Holy Grail.
According to the book, the Grail is not a chalice, as traditionally believed, but Mary Magdalene.
It claims Jesus and Mary married and had a child and that their bloodline survives to this day - a secret kept by the Catholic Church.
The Da Vinci Code is a fictional thriller, which supposes a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene that produced a royal bloodline in France.
Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France, where Father Berenger Saunier was the priest
(Note: Rennes le Chateau is located in southern France in the Aude departement of the Languedoc-Roussillon region near the Aude river south of Carcassonne. The closest village is Couiza.)
Read here "Mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau".
The Da Vinci Code also contains many more claims about Christianity's historic origins and theological development.
The central claim Brown's novel makes about Christianity is that "almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false."
Senior figures in the Vatican have dismissed the book as "lies". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa and right-hand man to the new Pope Benedict XVI, recently spoke out against the book.
"It astonishes and worries me that so many people believe these lies.Brown, a former teacher who rarely makes public appearances, sent a videoed acceptance speech to the awards ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London
The book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true."
He told of his delight that the book had sparked worldwide religious debate but added: "For the record, it is a novel."
The 16th annual British Book Awards were hosted by TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
Related Non-Fiction Book
The story in both books, the novel, the Da Vinci Code, and the non-fiction, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is this:
This non-fiction book, like the novel, the Da Vinci Code, is provocative, and meticulously researched. The authors' conclusion from their detective work? The answers to the questions posed: Yes and probably true!"In 1885, the Abbe Berenger Sauniere discovered a collection of parchments beneath a church in Rennes-le-Chateau.
One of the complex ciphers and codes read: 'To Dagobert II King And To Sion Belongs This Treasure And He Is There Dead.'
Sauniere quickly became part of the Parisian esoteric underground and extracted a fortune from the (Catholic) Church, which was spent on unusual interior designs that prominently featured unusually dark interpretations of Christ's crucifixion".
In the book, the author asked, and went about doing a detective work, the following questions:
- Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
- Is it possible that Christ did not die on the cross?
- Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
- Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets in Christendom?
- Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?
The detective work began with the story in which Father Berenger Saunier, as priest of the Rennes-le-Chateau, stumbled upon a parchment hidden in one of the pillars in the Chateau.
Supposed copies of this parchment are in existence and have been decoded to show the following message:
BERGER PAS DE TENTATION QUE POUSSINIt was translated as:
TENIERS GARDENT LA CLEF PAX DCLXXXI PAR LA
CROIX ET CE CHEVAL DE DIEU J'ACHEVE CE
DAEMON DE GARDIEN A MIDI POMMES BLEUES.
SHEPHERDESS NO TEMPTATION THAT POUSSIN
TENIERS HOLD THE KEY PEACE 681 BY THE CROSS
AND THIS HORSE OF GOD I COMPLETE(or translated as DESTROY)
THIS DAEMON GUARDIAN AT MIDDAY BLUE APPLES
Painting by Nicolas Poussin entitled "Les Bergers d'Arcadie"
Excerpt:Pages 409-410. "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today-with numerous collateral branches who are of Merovingian lineage.For further readings on related stories:
These include the houses of Hapsburg-Lorraine (present titular dukes of Lorraine and kings of Jerusalem), Plantard, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesquiou, and various others. According to the 'Prieure documents,' the Sinclair family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline as are various branches of the Stuarts. And the Devonshire family, among others, would seem to have been privy to the secret.
All of these houses could presumably claim a pedigree from Jesus; and if one man, at some point in the future, is to be put forward as a new priest-king, we do not know who he is."
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