‘Do you believe it?’

‘I know not what to think!’

Germanus read the inscription on the sarcophagus once again. If this is true – then the Christian Church is finished. A religion that relies on a man dying and then rising from the dead and ascending into heaven cannot survive the discovery of a corpse.

‘There is no guarantee that it is him!’

‘But what about the treasure, Elafius?’

‘Why should all this gold and silver have anything to do with our Lord and Saviour?’

‘He might be your Lord and Saviour, Elafius, but he is not mine!’

‘And what about me?’

Germanus and Elafius both laughed, albeit nervously. In their anxiety over this unknown’s tomb, they ha...

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