"At The River" - Excerpt from The Madonna Secret

(Miriam and her brother Lazaros have travelled to the Ha-Yarden (Jordan) River in search of both adventure and a cure for Miriam’s epileptic fits. It is said that a wild man called Yochanan the Immerser (John the Baptist) has an encampment on its banks where he teaches and occasionally performs exorcisms.)

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