The DaVinci Code

One hour, he told himself, grateful that the Teacher had given him time to carry out the necessary penance before entering a house of God. His books on the secret codes hidden in the paintings of Poussin and Teniers were some of Langdon's favorite classroom texts. The task of saving the Holy Grail clearly includes carrying out the Priory's final wishes of sharing the truth with the world." Langdon intervened. He began with the clawed feet beneath the sarcophagus, moved upward past Newton, past his books on science, past the two boys with their mathematical scroll, up the face of the pyramid to the giant orb with its constellations, and finally up to the niche's star-filled canopy.