THE DISGRACE OF SANT' AMBROGIO

<p>The Disgrace of Sant'Ambrogio: Memoirs of Father John Conley</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>August 28 1944 Florence Italy</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Everybody out a German lieutenant yelled as the citizens in the river district were forced out of their homes.</p><p></p><p>They're going to blow our bridges an old man shouted with his fist in the air. That night as the bridges were destroyed smoke and flame lit the air as a revered Renaissance painting was stolen by the known gestapo collaborator Father Danilo Lombardi.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>September 22 1978 Vatican City</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A young American priest from Boston is summoned to the Vatican on a fateful journey. The disgrace of Sant' Ambrogio sends Father John Conley on a pilgrimage from the catacombs of the Vatican to the summits of the Alps the monastery of Saint Benedict and through the gates of East Berlin. Confronted by a blizzard angry secret police and unrequited love he must remain faithful on his mission to redeem the church of Sant' Ambrogio.</p>