Vatican Cities Quotes

Notice: All explanations of events are in chronological order followed by the location, with exceptions being the cardinal picture, the pope picture, the heparin picture, Vatican City, and the ambigram picture which will be at the end. The heparin picture is not part of the chronological order because the event was explained over two separate sections of the book. Each event will include a quote and an explanation, which are labeled. The quotes are the best possible examples of context I could find without quoting a whole chapter.
• CERN- Quote: “The world’s largest scientific research facility- Switzerland’s Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN)- recently succeeded in producing the first particles of antimatter.” [Brown FACT].

The man’s mouth had been jammed open and packed solid with dirt. “Somebody stuffed a fistful of dirt down his throat. He suffocated.” “Dirt?” Vittoria said. “As in … earth?” Langdon did a double take. Earth. He had almost forgotten. The brands. Earh, Air, Fire, Water.” [Brown 276] Explanation: The first cardinal, Ebner was killed at 8:00 pm was suffocated by means of dirt jammed down his throat. Each cardinal was branded with an ambigram of the element they were killed with. In this case the ambigram was the word “earth”.
• Church of Santa Maria del Popolo- Location of the first dead cardinal, Ebner at 8:00 pm. Langdon first saw the first dead cardinal in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. The cardinal was killed with soil shoved down his throat.
• Air symbol (Cardinal Lammase)- Quote: “He had two deep puncture wounds, one on either side of the brand, just below his rib cage.” [Brown 303] Explanation: The third cardinal that was killed at 10:00 pm was killed by puncturing both of his lungs. When Langdon and Vittoria arrived to him, he had a pulse and Vittoria attempted mouth to mouth but the two punctures in his lungs prevented any air flow. As she attempted mouth to mouth, blood spewed up from the branded ambigram. In this case the ambigram was the word

She now saw it would be uneccesary. The cheeks had collapsed, and the Pope’s mouth gaped wide. His tongue was black as death.” [Brown 342] Explanation: Heparin was used by Carlo to kill his father, who was the current Pope. Carlo’s father needed heparin for his illness and Carlo gave his father a lethal dose to kill him. The corpse was obviously blackened in the oral area and they came to a conclusion that it was the cause of a heparin overdose. This allowed Carlo to be the pope for the time being till the voting of the new