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Agarta's Story - A Jew's Journey
The jewish boy at gardo comes to believe in to preach the christian faith. It's a choice he makes himself, though many have wondered how free he really was to choose. This ending, kirtzer believes, is why the story tends to be overlooked in italian history. The problem is, agarta was put up as this great jewish martyr, but in the end he becomes a priest and tries to use his own inspirational story to convert jews.
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