By John Richard Sack

ISBN-10: 1433228971

ISBN-13: 9781433228971

ISBN-10: 1883991919

ISBN-13: 9781883991913

THE FRANCISCAN CONSPIRACY, a historical past secret set in medieval Italy, has been released in sixteen languages and has been a top-10 bestseller in Brazil and all through Europe. On his dying, Fra Leo, the nearest better half of Francis of Assisi throughout the saint’s lifestyles, leaves a cryptic message for a more youthful friar. He launches the younger hermit Fra Conrad right into a labyrinth whose each passage confronts his inner most fears—there to make experience of the weird and complicated occasions that Francis’ demise in 1226. Why was once the saint’s physique abducted and hidden on the instigation of the top of the Franciscan Order? Why did the Order insist that the earliest biographies of Francis be destroyed? additionally, Conrad is left to fathom the main mysterious occasion of Francis’ life—the wounds of Christ printed on the saint’s physique on Monte LaVerna.

The novel is decided opposed to the chaotic backdrop of 13th-century Italy, an period whilst the extraordinary poverty of spiritual zealots clashed with the burgeoning prosperity of retailers, the monastic orders and high-ranking Church officers. This chasm additionally divided the Franciscan Order after Francis’ death.

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