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2013.
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Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. His daily exposure to the power, politics, and personalities in the seat of Roman Catholicism gave him a unique, behind-the-scenes perspective on an institution that is far less monolithic and unified than it first appears.Show Less
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2020.
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Three exhilarating novellas - The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and A Christmas Requiem - follow the early adventures of young priest Giordano Bruno in the dramatic days of sixteenth century Italy. Even the dead have a story to tell ... Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order - despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult...
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Oscar Wilde murder mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
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Authors Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle team up to find a determined killer whose victims are tied to the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Magdalene chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
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An old World War II diary filled with cryptic clues launches two friends on an adventure around the world ... but their path is fraught with danger and deception ... and the treasure they seek can change everything for good-or evil. Father Michael Dominic and his journalist friend Hana Sinclair are off to follow a tantalizing lead: a Nazi journal revealing a holy relic's hiding place. The pair believes the book could lead them to a sacred cloth Christ...
Pub. Date
2004
Description
When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
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Joe Rogan mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
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The Empress Holds The Key takes the reader on an exciting journey of discovery where the stakes are high, the rewards great, but where the price of failure is oblivion. It is a quest for the ultimate prize in archaeology - a holy relic that has mysteriously disappeared from the pages of history. The story begins in the ruins of a cottage destroyed by bushfire in the Blue Mountains in Australia, visits many countries, and explores intriguing chapters...
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[2016]
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Angels & demons: Expert symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Rome when four Cardinals are abducted by the church's nemesis, The Illuminati. Joining forces with beautiful professor of physics and biology Vittoria Vetra, Langdon pursues obscure and ancient clues through secret passages, cathedrals, crypts and the most secret vault in history to succesfully prevent The Illuminati blowing up Vatican City.
The DaVinci code: When respected American...
53) Churches
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c2001
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Special theme essays cover the earliest Christian churches, the construction of Gothic cathedrals, the evolution of the baptismal font, churches designed by contemporary artists, and the revival of meditative labyrinth walking.
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c2007
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Civilization has been destroyed by a catastrophe of epic proportions. Mankindd is at war with vampires, an alien life form that appeared when the earth changed. Father Abel Nightroad, Sister Esther Blanchett and Tres Iquis are on the road to their safe harbour, the Vatican, battling vampires along the way. When they finally reach their destination, Rome...
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[2022]
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Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vatican scholar paints a new, dramatic portrait of what Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial popes in Church history, did and did not do during WWII as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews.
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