1636: The Vatican Sanction

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636 Its spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinalsof Pope Urbans renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vaticans would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Churchs senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon, where the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help. He can rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzares theological savvy, Sharon Nichols medical skills, and her husband Ruy Sanchezs keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban has a new Papal Guard in