Number eight is on the door of the ordinary room in the St. Fransiskus Monastery on Jalan Kramat Raya 134, Central Jakarta. It was there that a guest called Hieromimus Husni spent two nights just before last Christmas—when bombs exploded in Jakarta and other cities.

At first there was nothing mysterious about him. Carrying an ordinary green knapsack, Husni met with the head of the monastery Brother Bambang Hasto, OFM, on December 22. He ex