However, shortly before his death, the Pope told him a secret which sickened Carlo and left him crying on his floor.Īs the public were told that the Pope died from a stroke, the Hassassin contacts them and claims that the Illuminati were responsible for the death and poisoned him. When he was still young, the Pope, the priest who took him in, made him Camerlengo. After his two years in the army, at the age of eighteen, Carlo returned to the cathedral and was ordained as a priest.

As he could not bear to kill another human being, he was given the job of a medical pilot, which he enjoyed, as being in the helicopter allowed him to be closer to Heaven, and his late mother. When he was sixteen, Carlo was conscripted into the Italian Army. One day, when Carlo was ten years old, she was tragically killed in an explosion, and Carlo was taken in by a priest at a cathedral. His mother was a devout Catholic woman named Maria, whom he loved more than anybody else in the world. When Langdon requests entry to the Vatican Archives, he is led to the Camerlengo, who is currently the only person in the world allowed to grant them entry.Īs the four preferiti are murdered by the Hassassin, Janus, an Illuminati master, contacts the killer and gives him his orders.Īs Langdon walks the Path of Illumination in an attempt to find the Illuminati lair, Carlo's history is slowly revealed as the story progresses. In the book, Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra are summoned to Vatican City by the Swiss Guard, who need them to locate the antimatter counting down within their walls and discover the secret behind the Illuminati ambigram. The Pope (Angels & Demons) (biological father, deceased)Ĭarlo Ventresca (or Patrick McKenna in the film, in which he is portrayed by Ewan McGregor) is the Pope's Camerlengo and the primary antagonist of Angels & Demons.

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