Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 31: A Magazine for Armed Forces Personnel; February, 1973
When the treasury was exhausted, with the building still uncompleted, Justinian decreed that the army had to serve without pay. He also closed the schools and confiscated the sal aries of public Officials. Nothing, not even starvation, was to hinder the church of his dreams!
For the altar alone he ordered twenty tons of silver and five hun dred thousand pearls. Finally, after five maddening years of deadlines, the vast building was completed.
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