The Centurion and The Christ Child Author:Michael E. Jones Imagine a Nativity Story about a Roman centurion who becomes the first Christian and where four Magi traveled far to worship the newborn king and to frustrate Herod. This is a story that relates how Herod schemed to prevent Christ?s birth, and how he failed. — The story is set in Judea, a few ye... more »ars before Christ is born. A loyal Roman Centurion, Karalas, meets Mary as a girl and later as a young woman. He meets Joseph as a young man and later as Mary?s husband. Through his love for them and their child, he risks his life, literally minutes ahead of Herod?s troops, to save not only Jesus, but the infant who becomes John the Baptist.
The book closes on a brief scene in Italy where the old retired warrior relates the story to his granddaughter. As the story closes, the granddaughter alerts her grandfather to the presence of a single man standing on a beach watching their house. As the retired Centurion goes to meet the man, the greater adventure begins.« less