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Название книги: The Last Pope
Автор(ы): Luis Rocha
Жанр: Триллер
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Copyright © 2006 by Luís Miguel RochaTranslation © 2008 by Dolores M. Koch
This book is dedicated to John Paul I (Albino Luciani), October 17, 1912-September 29, 1978.And, as for you, my dear Patriarch,Christ’s crown and Christ’s days.– SISTER LUCÍA TO ALBINO LUCIANI, COIMBRA, PORTUGAL, JULY 11, 1977May God forgive you for what you have done to me.– ALBINO LUCIANI TO THE CARDINALS WHO ELECTED HIM POPE ON AUGUST 26, 1978
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Why does a man run? What makes him run? He puts one leg in front of the other, the right foot follows the left. Some people seek glory. Others want to win a race or just lose a few pounds. But they always run for the same reason: they run for their lives.Or at least that was what drove this man, his black cassock dissolving into the darkness of the place, running as fast as he could down the long interior staircase in the Secret Archives of the Vatican, a not-so-secret housing for supposedly secret documents. Those three imposing Vatican halls, and the buildings behind the Apostolic Palace, held docu