The Cross.The Cross Gene Shaffer Thunder Ridge Publishing PO Box 3869, Prescott, AZ 86302 0977414108 $24.95 www.cableone.net The Cross by Gene Shaffer is an well crafted novel of the escalating contempt held for an American Cardinal as his interpretation of a two-thousand-year-old inscription inscription, writing on durable material. The art is called epigraphy. Modern inscriptions are made for permanent, monumental record, as on gravestones, cornerstones, and building fronts; they are often decorative and imitative of ancient (usually Roman) methods. as the missing final verses from the fifteenth In music, a fifteenth (sometimes abbreviated 15ma) is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter or quadruple the frequency. It corresponds to two octaves. It is the fourth harmonic. chapter of the Book of Mark. As the Cardinal's election and coronation coronation, ceremony of crowning and anointing a sovereign on his or her accession to the throne. Although a public ceremony inaugurating a new king or chief had long existed, a new religious service was added when Europe became Christianized. as Pope approaches, his discovery results in a political turmoil. Against the backdrop of the Catholic church, The Cross leads its readers through a story of murder, divisions of loyalty, terrorism, suicide and scandal. An "instant classic" and sure to be timeless timeless, adj infinite, enduring, endless. tale, The Cross is very highly recommended reading. |
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