Blood and Roses
· Alessia DeLuca & Production Syndicate · 4 min read
At half-past five on Saturday evening, an atmosphere of sacred, breathless reverence settled over the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. Don Carmine Lucchese stepped to the center of the dais, holding the ancient, hand-illuminated *Codex of Cosa Nostra*—the centuries-old vellum book of sovereign oaths forged in Sicily in 1860. Beside him stood Father Capella, holding an antique gold crucifix and a vessel of holy oil from the Cathedral of…
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