Inquisition

At this point, we have a few gaps in our working timeline of Sam Bailey's life.  This entry pertains to one in particular, and may explain the Church's interest in preventing further inquiry into the history and nature of Sam Bailey's life.

 

We know that as late as the end of the fifteenth century, Sam Bailey was overseeing the Bristol Trading Company.  More than likely, travel was a part of his business regimen.  From the final years of the 1400's until early in the seventeenth century when he turns back up, records of Sam Bailey are seemingly non-existent.

 

During those years, the Pope's Inquisition began a sudden and forceful rise to power.  By the 1600's, when Sam Bailey's miraculous recovery from mortal wounds was documented by the monks at Antelao, the Inquisition was one of the most powerful institutions in European politics.

 

Was Sam Bailey one of the deciding factors in the Church's commitment to rooting out infernal influence in the lay people?  If so, and if inquisitors in England or abroad made Sam Bailey a case for war against the forces of Hell on Earth, why release him one hundred years later?

 

Did they make some kind of discovery with regards to his condition?  If the inquisition held Sam Bailey captive, is the Church trying to conceal his unjust captivity or his accidental release by hiding "The Resurrection of Antelao"?