Rodrigo José Vilela Lira dos Santos

August 13, 1792. The sun had already set when the old cart drove up to the gates of the building that had once been home to the Templars in the French capital, and was therefore …

The wood crackled and gradually the flames rose. For a moment, everything seemed to indicate that the supreme sacrifice was over and the victim had been consumed on the infamous scaffold. But it was enough …