Lumen Redux
With a rich commentary by Marco Patricelli (one of Italy’s most respected experts of XX century history), this version of Lumen offers previously unpublished details about the lives and past experiences of the protagonists, Martin Bora and Father John Malecki, SJ.
Nazi-occupied Krakow, Poland. Autumn 1939. A shadowy assassin takes the life of Maria Kazimierza, mother superior in the convent of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows. The murder causes great embarrassment to German authorities and Polish clergy alike. Mother Kazimierza, in fact, was more than a simple nun: her body showed Christ’s own wounds – the stigmata –, and thanks to her gift of prophecy she enjoyed immense popular veneration. In order to solve the sacrilegious crime and to avoid a collapse of the already strained relations between the Catholic Church and the Third Reich, a highly unorthodox duo of investigators is called upon: Captain Martin Bora, a young Wehrmacht intelligence officer, previously engaged in a Spanish inquiry (The Horseman’s Song), and in a Japan-related investigation (Master of One Hundred Bones) and Father John Malecki, a feisty Polish-American priest. The sole clue the two men have to unravel the Kazimierza case is an ambiguous prophecy, revolving around the Latin word Lumen...
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