Even though she works and lives in a church, she is a member of the Priory of Sion, assigned to warn them should the false keystone be found beneath the Rose Line, as it meant that one of the four guardians had been interrogated and the Priory was under attack. Sister Sandrine is a nun, who lives at Saint Sulpice.
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At the end of the movie he is placed under extremely high watch by Fache. His character is more greedy and sinister than is portrayed in the book he has even tricked Fache into believing Langdon was the murderer. In the film, Aringarosa is a member of the Council of Shadows, a secret organization dedicated to the destruction of the Sangreal and its bloodline. If taken as two Italian words, "aringa" and "ros(s)a," the bishop's surname translates to "red herring." This meaning is highly reflective of his function in the novel, as it is later revealed that Sir Leigh Teabing is the real antagonist in the novel/film, while the bishop has indeed just been a red herring. The etymology of the bishop's name is of particular interest. In remorse over the revelations of Silas, Aringarosa asks Fache to distribute the bearer bonds among the families of Silas' victims. Silas, however, dies of a gunshot wound inflicted during his fight with the police. He is then taken to the hospital by Silas and recovers shortly after. Filled with disbelief, Aringarosa tries to stop Silas but Silas shoots him by mistake. Aringarosa goes there after arriving in London, and sees Silas shooting some policemen. Meanwhile, after setting up a fake kidnapping scene using Silas, Sir Leigh Teabing (who is actually the Teacher) makes an anonymous call to the police and tells them that Silas is staying at the London Opus Dei Centre. However, he is later informed that Langdon and his allies have fled to London with a captured Silas, and so he goes there instead. While Fache tries to track down Langdon who still thinks Fache is trying to arrest him, Aringarosa takes a flight to Paris to meet Fache and find Silas. He tells everything to Fache, and Fache also realizes that he had wrongly accused Robert Langdon for killing Saunière. Aringarosa realizes that Silas had killed Sandrine and that the Teacher had deceived him. Fache tells Aringarosa that his fellow nun Sister Sandrine Bieil has been murdered and asks him for information. To Aringarosa's surprise, the sole message was not from the Teacher, but from a French police captain Bezu Fache. Unable to contact the Teacher, he calls the Opus Dei headquarters to ask if he had any messages. While leaving, Aringarosa is suddenly afraid that the Teacher would suspect him of running away with the money, as he couldn't be contacted in the hills with no phone signal. On the same night Silas kills Priory leader Jacques Saunière, Aringarosa goes to the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo to retrieve bearer bonds worth twenty million euros from the Vatican, as instructed by the Teacher. Unbeknownst to Aringarosa, the Teacher instructs Silas to kill the four top members of the Priory of Sion, a secret organization pledged to protect the secret of the Grail. The Teacher requests that for a short period Aringarosa and Silas cannot communicate, while Silas does his bidding. Although the Teacher doesn't provide him with any contact information, Aringarosa is extremely intrigued about this and willingly agrees to cooperate. The artifact is in fact a keystone which provides clues that lead to the legendary Holy Grail. The Teacher informs him that he can deliver an artifact to Aringarosa so valuable to the Church that it will give Opus Dei extreme leverage over the Vatican. Shortly after the meeting with the Vatican officials, he is contacted by a shadowy figure calling himself "The Teacher," who has learned somehow of the secret meeting. As he believes that Opus Dei is the pulse keeping the Church from disintegrating into what he sees as the corruption of the modern era, he believes his faith demands that he take action to save Opus Dei. Five months before the start of the narrative, he is summoned by the Vatican to a meeting at an astronomical observatory in the Italian Apennines and told, to his great surprise, that in six months the Pope will withdraw his support of Opus Dei. Bishop Manuel Aringarosa is a fictional Spanish bishop, portrayed in the film by Alfred Molina.īishop Aringarosa is the worldwide head of Opus Dei and the patron of the albino monk Silas.