ok, so mm is still fixated on the da vinci code.........and cannot wait to see the paintings in question in the louvre...or the other paris sites mentioned..........i have had a back-flash that is relevant....i once went with my aunt and uncle in cleveland to an 'installation' of someone in a top-rank in eastern star...it was held in a church...and the place was packed, including the balconies...like this was some sort of big deal........it seems from this book that eastern star is the female version of the knights templar, which are centrally featured in this book as the guardians of the holy grail......who knew? my grandfather broughton was alo a mason....and the masons replaced the knights templar when the pope at the time inthe 1500's decided that the knights templar were too powerful, and accused them all of sodomy and had them basically burned out.........supposedly the knights templar were blackmailing the pope over their 'secret' and he was tired of paying........so many possibilities.......what is clear from this book, despite it's nature as a novel rather than non-fiction....is that it is entirely possible.....that jesus was married, just like all the other male jews of his age...and that he procreated....and that the line of jesus can be traced back................just like the c-w's to charlemagne....maybe we are also related to jesus..........nice thought, i suppose. to be related to a radically-thinking 1st century jew........anyway.....i may have to make a pilgrimage to see the original last supper fresco by davinci...also a centerpeice in this book.......to see the things i had not noticed before.............. in a world of predictable fiction, this book was a blessed releif......