ABSTRACT
However, much stranger than the apocryphal story itself and the role played by Cardinal Santacroce (if he is indeed the person who fabricated the whole thing), is the fact that the same book of Lazarus which was allegedly kept hidden and sealed from all eyes, put away in the secret archives of the Vatican, never to be seen by anyone other than future cardinals, happened to be for sale in Constantinople in the sixties of the sixteenth century. Interested? For more information, please ask Manuel Malaxos, the grammarian/notary responsible for the catalogue, of which the book of Lazarus forms the rst entry, or send a letter to John Malaxos, the scribe who copied the catalogue.
