Early reports indicate that the church fire where they recorded the Da Vinci code was not accidental

March 19, 2019

The church Saint Sulpice is one of the most known thanks to its importance in the code Da Vinci. This is a huge, unfinished building that caught fire on the weekends. Flames rose above the doors of the Catholic temple where firefighters had to go.

On Sunday morning, the church of Saint Sulpice He started to burn. This weekend, the tourists who surrounded it were alerted. Instead, there were not many tourists for the mobilization of "yellow vests".

The fire broke out after noon and extended for several hours. Instead, there were four people who were quickly evacuated. Firefighters explained that the flames started to climb through the doors and spread to the stained glbad windows. Until now, experts have badyzed the possibility that the fire is intentional.

The gnomon or pink line

The church was built in 1646 on foundations dating from the Middle Ages. Its towers house three paintings by Eugene Delacroix, one of the figures of the romantic movement of the nineteenth century. The priest Languet de Gercy He instructed an astronomer to build a gnomon to calculate the date of Easter. This is a marble column that marks the time through the shadow that is projected on the ground.

Thanks to the existence of the gnomon, the church was saved from destruction during the French Revolution. In the & # 39;Da Vinci CodeI'm, the actors come across the Fountain of the four cardinal points. Four bishops are represented, pointing to each of the cardinal points.

The gnomon Saint Sulpice is what the film shows as the pink line. The line is obtained by pbading a sunbeam through a hole. It is the successive positions of the solar ray at noon that determine the trace. TheAt the orientation of the temple, the line is extended, for which an obelisk was built.

Recently, another church in the United States was hit by a violent fire. Upon arrival at the site, firefighters discovered that the Christian tempo had been completely damaged by a fire. Surprised, the specialists discovered that the Bibles were on the ground without a scratch.