All 9 Uses of
clemency
in
The Da Vinci Code
- By the 1300s, the Vatican sanction had helped the Knights amass so much power that Pope Clement V decided that something had to be done.†
Chpt 37-38
- In a military maneuver worthy of the CIA, Pope Clement issued secret sealed orders to be opened simultaneously by his soldiers all across Europe on Friday, October 13 of 1307.†
Chpt 37-38
- Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†
Chpt 37-38
- Pope Clement had been asked by God to cleanse the earth by rounding up all the Knights and torturing them until they confessed their crimes against God.†
Chpt 37-38
- Clement's Machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision.†
Chpt 37-38 *
- Despite Clement's false charges and best efforts to eradicate them, the Knights had powerful allies, and some managed to escape the Vatican purges.†
Chpt 37-38
- The Templars' potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power, was Clement's true objective, but it slipped through his fingers.†
Chpt 37-38
- The ceremony honored the creative magic of sexual union, but Pope Clement convinced everyone that Baphomet's head was in fact that of the devil.†
Chpt 75-76
- Langdon thought of the notorious Templar round-up in 1307—unlucky Friday the thirteenth—when Pope Clement killed and interred hundreds of Knights Templar.†
Chpt 81-82
Definition:
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(clemency as in: the judge showed clemency) mercy