Akaba

The setting is the time of Christ. Polonius, King of Elab, is stricken with a fatal disease. He has heard about a healer in Judea called Jesus. He sends his son, Leonidas, together with Pentaurius and Dardanus to Judea to find Jesus. They arrive to find that He has been crucified. Leonidas and Dardanus return to Elab while Pentaurius remains in Jerusalem locating the Apostles and Mary, the mother of Jesus, on Pentecost eve. Mary tells him that Polonius has been cured. Pentaurius stays and hears the apostolic sermon on Pentecost. He returns to Elab with the Apostle Jude who receives license from Polonius to teach about Jesus only to the Graeco-Elabites who, for the most part, worship the Greek pantheon. The Old Elabites practice a form of Judaism and the religious leaders do not want them to abandon their traditional faith. Eventually, the Old Elabite hierarchy under the leadership of the High Priest, Rua, succeed in getting Jude banished from Elab.