Ever the Twins Shall Meet

It's mid-morning in late March of 88 AD. The marketplace in Smyrna, a remote Aegean outpost of the Roman Empire, is alive with shoppers and merchants. Suddenly, a commotion erupts and a handsome young man, well-dressed, is being confronted by a merchant and two Roman legionnaires—the policeman of that time—and is taken into custody for a theft that had occurred the prior day.
Thus does Marsallas, son of an early Christian missionary and himself a spreader of the word of Christ, find himself ...