Opus Dei: 2 from 'Da Vinci Code sect' on trial for holding woman as 'brainwashed slave' ..

Opus Dei was made famous by Dan Brown's best-selling novel and subsequent film The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks, left, and Audrey Tautou, right

The Opus Dei headquarters in Rome: French woman Catherine Tessier claims to have been brainwashed by the mysterious Catholic society

Two members of the mysterious Catholic cult featured in film The Da Vinci Code, will go on trial today accused of holding a woman hostage as a 'brainwashed slave' for 16 years.

Catherine Tessier, 40, claims she was forced to work 100-hours-a-week for no wages by leaders of the Opus Dei society..

Opus Dei.

The Rome-based society with 90,000 members around the world has denied it ran the catering school.
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