Chapter 24

Born the younger of twin brothers in such a family, he should have been killed the moment he came into the world, but… “Abba desires a son of Valentino.” Clement I, then a Cardinal and now the Pope, had left word that the boy was to be offered to God, and so his life had been spared. Theodore only learned of this fact after he left the underground room and came to the Grand Temple. Until then, he had done nothing but breathe in a basement where not a single sliver of sunlight entered.