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Searching for Papa Luna

A Modern Day Mystery

By: Gordon K. Greene

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Searching for Papa Luna

A Modern Day Mystery

By: Gordon K. Greene

In this novel, a modern-day music historian, Richard Taylor, stumbles across a clue that may lead to the journals of Pope Benedict XIII (1328-1423), a.k.a. “Papa Luna”, who was one of three popes claiming legitimacy during the troublesome Western Schism in the Church. The journals were hidden away by Papa Luna’s servant, a loyal Templar knight, in a cave at Montserrat Abbey, near Barcelona. The clue is in the form of a poem set to music. But Richard is not the only one looking for the journals. He wants to reveal their contents to the world. Two rivals want to claim personal ownership, one in order to benefit privately, the other to destroy them, for fear they may reveal Benedict’s claim to the papacy was legitimate after all. While Richard races to decipher the cryptic message, tragedy strikes, creating a murder mystery, with Richard and his companions the prime suspects. Papa Luna was declared an antipope during the Schism. His justification for refusing to capitulate lay in the fact he was the last living cardinal created by Gregory XI, who was the last Supreme Pontiff recognized by the entire Church. As the only undisputed cardinal, Benedict argued, he was the only legitimate candidate for the papacy. However, at age eighty-seven at the Council of Constance, Benedict’s logic was rejected, and he was forced to flee for his life. Based on true events, this novel is a companion to Gordon Greene’s previous novel, Papa Luna, in which he documents Benedict’s life and Papa Luna’s journals expose an entirely different perspective on the Western Schism.

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1525510754

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Papa Luna

Benedict XIII & The Schism

By: Gordon K. Greene

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Papa Luna

Benedict XIII & The Schism

By: Gordon K. Greene

The Catholic Church officially designates Benedict XIII, a.k.a. Pedro de Luna (1328–1423), as an antipope, a person who made a significantly recognized claim to the papal throne but whose claim was ultimately rejected. Author and historian Gordon K. Greene disagrees with this assessment. Seeking to right an historical wrong, he has written a fictionalized account of “Papa Luna’s” life in an effort to show that during the troublesome Western Schism period (1378–1417)—in which three men, including Benedict XIII, simultaneously claimed to be pope—Benedict XIII was the only legitimate contender and that rational minds devoid of racial bias should have recognized him as the legal pope. Gordon’s novel is fictional in the sense that he has created certain characters and situations to help bring Papa Luna to life. However, his account is factual concerning the main events of Papa Luna’s life—his roots in Cataluña; his schooling at Montserrat Abbey and Montpellier University; his main appointments, including serving as papal legate in the early years of the Hundred Years’ War negotiations between France and England; his personal acquaintance with Petrarch and Chaucer; his election to the Avignon papacy in 1394; and his defence of his right to the papal throne at the Council of Constance in 1415, when he was eighty-seven years old. Whether or not Gordon’s depiction of Papa Luna’s life convinces you that Benedict XIII should have been recognized as pope, there is no question that this novel tells a fascinating story of one man’s struggle to stay true to his beliefs during one of the most troublesome periods in Church history. In the process, Gordon reveals the all-too-human machinations that often determined who was and who was not elected to this most holy of divine offices.

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Benedict XIII & The Schism

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