"My Lord."
When the angels filling the sky began singing hymns reserved for God alone, Saint John XII silently joined those kneeling in worship.
The young man, clothed in swaddling cloth, set his bare feet on the ground. At once, it turned transparent, like an immense sheet of glass.
As the miracle spread, the church doors became the Pearl Gates, stone turned to gold, and the walls grew emerald green. Fruits of Wisdom appeared on the trees, and even the spring water became the Fountain of Youth.
Where the Lord set foot, there lay his Heaven.
Everyone present understood this at once.
"Children, you love your God, and your God loves you. He gave you his only son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have Immortality."
As the Son of God Messiah finished speaking, the air changed. Holy radiance burst forth, and the figures of a man and a woman slowly took shape within it. The angel wings behind them looked insubstantial.
"That's Simon and Lisa."
"Are they coming back to life?"
The crowd stared at Simon and Lisa in shock. Both had been swallowed by the Radiance of Lucifer's descent while guarding Sister Angelica and protecting the Son of God. No one had seen them die, but everyone who had watched knew they were gone, with not even their remains left behind.
Yet at the Son of God's words, the two dead had come back to life.
Once the shock passed, it seemed only natural. The Lord was Omnipotence. Bringing two people back to life was easy for him.
Under countless watching eyes, Simon and Lisa opened their eyes at the same time.
At first, they looked around in confusion. *Weren't we dead? Hadn't that blinding Radiance swallowed us and melted away our bodies and