A Mystery. Was Jesus in Rome?
"I am personally convinced that Jesus spent part of his life, some of the missing years, from the age of 12 until his ministry in Judea, here in Rome." Cardinal Philip Guerin.
Guerin dies, mysteriously, that same day. An ancient organization wants to silence the truth. Will Guerin's friends find archaeological and historical proof that Jesus was in Rome and that the Romans, not the Jews, killed Jesus?
It began with a dream experienced by Cardinal Guerin:
Was Jesus Christ In Rome?
"Last night I had a peculiar dream.
This is what the secret is. The missing link of Christianity. The lost information I have sought.
The Roman information.
Jesus was in Rome.
He spent much time here, long before he was murdered, not by his own people the Jews, but by Roman authorities.
Jesus was never poor, and he was highly educated. His beliefs in equality, in helping people, in goodness, in the triumph of light over darkness, in healing, in teaching, in philosophy---made him an enemy of the Roman state.
Jesus was murdered by the Romans because he was considered a political enemy of the state."
---Cardinal Philip Guerin (in the novel, Jesus in Rome)
"Rome executed Jesus. Why? He had to be a threat to the Empire in some way. I believe the man Tiberius left in charge of the Empire for many years, Sejanus, who hated Jews, may have concocted a plot to have Jesus assassinated . . . . We know that there were Christians in Rome before Jesus was crucified in Judea. How could that be the case if Jesus were never in Rome?"
---Bishop Joseph Gryphon (in the novel, Jesus in Rome)