The Magdalene Deception (The Magdalene Chronicles #1)

by Gary McAvoy

Asked how they might distinguish their Christian brethren from the heretics, the crusaders were simply told, “Kill them all. God will spare His own.” And so the Albigensian Crusade began.

steganography, the ingenious but little-known art of hiding information within information.

Let Voltaire’s caveat guide you: ‘History should be written as philosophy.’ Look for the lessons that can be learned from past mistakes,

During the war, the fiercely Roman Catholic Ustasha persecuted hundreds of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Roma Gypsies to ensure a more racially pure Croatia under a regime of forced Catholicism.

The Vatican had maintained full diplomatic relations with the Ustasha and, after the war ended, had facilitated the escape of Nazi war criminals to safe havens through ratlines operated by Catholic priests, notably those of the Franciscan order.

They espoused two opposing deities in eternal conflict: Amor, representing the Good God of the New Testament and creator of all things Spiritual, and Roma, the Evil God of the Old Testament who created the Physical World and all things Material.

After his crucifixion, the Lord came to me as in a vision, “Mistake not my resurrection as being of the body, my beloved, for it was only my spirit that ascended into my father’s kingdom, as will yours when you depart this life.” Then I said to Peter, “Peter, do not tell the others, but it was the spirit of our Lord which left this world. His body did not ascend as the others believe… Joseph of Arimathea helped me move our Lord’s body from the cave and take it to safety, for when we fled the Romans.”