Author(s): Carmel Bird

Fiction

Sydney Kent was a longed-for IVF baby, Her mother Avila prayed to the Bambinello, a small carved and jewelled statue of the infant Jesus housed in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. Father Roland Bruccoli, whose mother mother also prayed to the Bambinello is visiting the church of Santa Maria when the Bambinello is stolen.