PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What if an ancient medical tool from the day of Jesus' death became a secret family treasure? How will it affect the lives of the family and its descendants? Discover the riveting tale of The Cannula From Golgotha, an intriguing fiction by author Vic Maro.
On the day of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, Marius Aura -- a physician in the court of Herod Antipas ordered to attend to other corpses -- mislaid and lost a surgical device known then and now as a cannula. The cannula was playfully and surreptitiously taken that day by a pair of young children. They brought it home to their father who prized and kept it as a secret family treasure. This story then moves on to the latter part of the twentieth century, where a descendant of that family, Stanzi, a Sicilian youth, migrates to the USA to become an assassin for his uncle, a head of a small East Coast Mafioso family. Stanzi goes through troubled times in America until the cannula reappears and plays a significant role in changing his family's life.
It had long been the missing, treasured, ancient family heirloom of Stanzi's ancestral family. As Stanzi's life hangs in the balance, it resurfaces to affirm his redemption and to save his wife's life.
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About the Author
An American-born octogenarian with little education, Vic Maro is a father of six, grandfather and great grandfather of quite a few. He lived a bland and generally uneventful life mostly in the twentieth century, married throughout to one fine and good woman, Maria.
The Cannula from Golgotha * by Vic Maro
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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