The Franciscan Conspiracy

Seven hundred years ago, the Church hid the body of St. Francis of Assisi from the rest of the world. Brother Leo, the closest companion of the founder of the Franciscan Order, refuses to die carrying the weight of such a secret. In a farewell message, he encourages the young priest Conrad and sets him on a spiral of labyrinthine discoveries. Conrad's stubbornness to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of St. Francis of Assisi will lead him to the heart of 13th-century Italian society, where the extreme poverty of zealous religious figures clashes with the bourgeois prosperity of merchants, monastic orders, and high-ranking Church dignitaries. What secret, so threatening to the Church, led St. Francis of Assisi