El Monje y El Venerable - Christian Jacq

Autor: Christian Jacq

At the beginning of 1944 two exceptional men are arrested by the Gestapo and confined in a mysterious German fortress. One is François Branier, member of the Resistance, doctor and venerable master of a masonic lodge heiress of the cathedrals builders. The other, Fen Benoît, a Benedictine monk and a dowser, also a member of the Resistance. Face to face, like two gladiators in the arena of cruelty, they play survival to the Nazi horror subjected to a special body, created by Himmler, whose mission is to extract confidential information from religious orders, seers, astrologers and Of the secret societies in order to extract their powers, rites and techniques and verify their effectiveness. The monk and the venerable, two characters who existed in reality, They face each other because their faith seems irreconcilable. In the face of barbarism, should they not be heard first and then understood? To subjugate them and obtain their confessions, the torturers are willing to employ the most