What is the importance of the inn's name in the novel, The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog?

The name of the inn, The Holy Cross-Roads, is significant since it does represent a crossroads for both the children and for the narrator, who is revealed to be an Inquisitor. For the children, the inn represents the crossroads at which they will either succeed in their quest to save at least a single copy of the Talmud or they will fail. For the narrator, he is literally at a holy crossroads in which he is uncertain whether or not to believe the children are saints. And, if they are saints, he must struggle with the possibility of allowing them to be martyred so that he can say he discovered them and redeem himself.