The Hostage Saints crowned with a subtly brilliant

crowned with a subtly brilliant conclusion

By Nicanor Austriaco

whose wisdom “is running on the highways of the world before the footsteps of God

intelligently executed

The writings of the popes

The Hostage Saints crowned with a subtly brilliantBy Paul Claudel The year is 1812: the army of Napoleon Bonaparte has initiated its fatal invasion of Russia while Pope Pius VII languishes as a political prisoner of the Emperor. When George de Cofontaine et Dormant, Lord Lieutenant of the King, kidnaps the Pope, he sets into motion a series of events whose outcome could determine the fate of the Church and world alike. Bringing his papal hostage to the ancestral Cofontaine home, George draws his