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During the Portuguese Inquisition, the crash-landing of a spaceship presents a devasting moral dilemma when the Jesuits capture and imprison three beings, who escape the crash, and must confront the question about who or what these mysterious beings are. By the author of Cradle of Splendor.
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God has fallen to the Earth. Angels are sleeping with women. There is an immaculate conception, and lights are seen in the heavens. Heady stuff for the small village of Quintas, located in Portugal about the time of the Inquisition. While the pragmatic Father Pessoa struggles to keep the strange goings-on hidden from the eyes of the inquistors, the simple King Alfonso has decided that the stricken alien ship is God Himself. And God has let Alfonso in on a secret: the Earth orbits the sun. Unfortunately, the inquisitor-general is on his way to straighten things out. There will be no easy answers.
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