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Originally Posted by jet57
So, it really is a tourist thing, and sells books, ala Da Vince. It's a fund raiser; like a cave somewhere. Very nice, but not really "authentic".
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What a totally pathetic and uneducated comment! First of all, most old churches are a tourist thing nowadays, but as Polwarth says this chapel is still in use as a church! Secondly, The Da Vinci Code made the chapel more famous than it already was so the benefit went from the book to the chapel, not the other way around! Thirdly, of course its a fund raiser... without funds the building would have to be left to fall apart or be sold off (and then probably be converted in to something else). I'm not sure about your cave comment... I've not heard of many of them that are used to raise funds for anything! Finally, how can you even possibly think its
not really "authentic"? Have you even been there and seen it? Or even read anything about the building and its history? My guess is that you haven't!