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- By Our London Correspondent*
According to newspaper reports here, Sister Mary, who belongs to Our Lady’s Community of Peace and Mercy in Lincoln, led the protesters who greeted Hollywood star Tom Hanks with jeers as he arrived at the cathedral to shoot the book’s climactic scenes.
The cathedral, in the town of Lincoln, is being used for filming this week in spite of its own dean branding Dan Brown’s multimillion-selling book “a load of old tosh.” Reverend Alec Knight agreed to let filming take place after the film’s producers made a £100,000 donation. The 11th-century cathedral is serving as a double for Westminster Abbey, which refused to take part in the making of the £53 million blockbuster.
Sister Mary, told the Times that the central thesis of the book was drawn from an old gnostic heresy that she first became aware of 50 years ago, when she was 11. She admitted that she had not read the book but said that she had read enough about it to understand its central errors. “The Church should not be accepting money for something that is not a true story,” she said. “There is something wrong. They really should be praying more, and then the money would come in. I do not believe the film will be successful. The essence of what I believe is that I received the true body and blood of our Lord at Mass this morning. That is the true bloodline. To a believer, any believer, what is happening is blasphemous. It is an offence against God. I am not going to bash anyone over the head with a Bible, I am just trying to make reparation to God.”
