threatens his informers, the four top members of the Priory of Sion; the three sénéchaux
and their Grand Master Jacques Saunière, by death, “The prospect of death is strong motivation” p. 13. After he gets the information, then he really
murders his informers. The attacker aimed his gun again.”When you are gone, I will be the only
one who knows the truth. The truth. In an instant, the curator grasped the true horror of the situation. If I die, the truth will be lost forever.
Instinctively, he tried to scramble for cover. The gun roared, and the curator felt a searing heat as the bullet lodged in his stomach. He fell
forward... struggling against the pain. Slowly, Saunière rolled over and stared back through the bars at his attacker p. 4.
When he is trying to find the keystone in Saint-Sulpice church, Silas also kills Sister Sandrine Bieil brutally because he is so angry knowing the fact that
this sister helps the priory to keep their secret and moreover because this sister criticizes Opus Dei’s way.
A sudden explosion of rage erupted behind the monks eyes. He lunged, lashing out with the candle stand like a club. As Sister Sandrine fell, her
last feeling was an overwhelming sense of foreboding p. 146.
Silas stated that “She was working against God She scorned the work of Opus Dei”p. 233. According to Silas this sister is one of the enemies of God, and the
enemy of God deserves to be killed.
4. Silas as a Faithful Monk
Although Silas is a brutal monk, actually he has a very strong faith in God. He strongly believes that God has released and saved him from suffering and
gives him salvation, “The Lord has provided me shelter and purpose in my life” p. 21.
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From the day he had been saved, Silas always dedicates his life to God. In everything he does he always prays for God guidance. When he is in a mission of
getting the Holy Grail, he offers his work to God, because he is strongly believes that he is doing the work of God, ”Dear God, I offer up to you this work I do
today.... ” p. 96.
Silas does not care about people judgment toward him. According to him, people can judge him not worthy for God because of his sin, but he believes that it
is “God alone judges the worthy” p. 300. He knows that his service to God requires the sin of murder, but still he has faith that God will forgive him because
he is willing to sacrifice himself to be sinful just to do the work of God. One hour,
he told himself, grateful that the Teacher had given him time to carry out the necessary penance before entering a house of God. I must
purge my soul of todays sins. The sins committed today had been holy in
purpose. Acts of war against the enemies of God had been committed for centuries. Forgiveness was assured. Even so, Silas knew, absolution
required sacrifice p. 14.
As the follower of Opus Dei, it is a must for Silas to practice Corporal Mortification, a kind of Opus Dei ritual which requires its follower to do self-
torture. Silas always puts so much appreciation to this ritual. Moreover it is a pleasure for him to do this ritual, because through this ritual he feels that his faith
in God can grow, “The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure
” p. 80. Even in his last breath when Silas has already known that what he is doing
is a sin, Silas never lost his faith in God. He asks God to forgive him and to give his mentor second chance to live.
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