Referencing “Basilica of Our Lady”

The Night of Knives in Kraków

Forty-seven mouths wired shut so that no prayer could escape

Forty-seven clergymen seized in the night, their mouths wired shut with iron wire, and cast from the Dębnicki Bridge into the frozen Vistula. The Bureau spent one hundred and thirty years ratifying the narrative; it has been collecting the candle wicks ever since.

Codex Ref. VII.8.01-001