12.
For the time being, I’ve become a
priest and my present employer, Anya Manion, has become a nun.
Dressed in black pants, matching
jacket over a black shirt and stiff white collar, I am traveling under the
assumed name of Father John Crews. Anya is playing the part of Sister Rosaire
de Marie, and the navy blue nun habit she dons proves it. We are two ecumenical
scholars studying the shroud and its history. Together we believe the fourteen-foot
length of cotton fabric is not a medieval fake, but the true two thousand-year-old
burial robe of Christ. That is, according to the documentation provided to us
by Checco. The forged documentation signed and sealed by the Vatican and presently stored in my shoulder bag, along with fake passports, grants a
private one hour viewing of the
