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61-year-old Sister Mary Michael knelt believes the Da Vinci Code film, based on the blockbuster book written by Dan Brown, contains heresy. The sister prayer outside the Lincoln Cathedral for 12 hours to object to the production of the film, which stars Tom Hanks reports BBC. The prayer session was reportedly witnessed by actor Tom Hanks and the Sony Pictures film crew.
"It matters to me what God thinks, not what the film crew think.
"When I face almighty God at my final judgment, as we all will, I can say I did try my best. I did try my best to protest," she said.
Producers were barred from filming at Westminster Abbey because the book suggests the church is covering up the truth about Jesus' life.
The novel portrays Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene and fathering a child.
The Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, the Very Reverend Alec Knight, stepped in and allowed production there.
The film company reportedly offered a donation of 100,000 pounds.
The Very Rev Knight said: "It's (the book) been attacked as blasphemous because it argues the notion that Jesus's humanity included an element of sexuality.
"My view is that the book isn't blasphemous, it doesn't denigrate God in any way, but it is speculative, far fetched and heretical.
"It has clearly touched the public imagination, and the Church needs to open up a debate about it rather than throw one's hands up and walk away from it."
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