Chapter 111: The Holy Light is not afraid, but it is afraid of organization
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Thus, on Christmas Day 1495, the report of the complete conquest of Hispaniola reached Ferdinand.
In the wake of this incident, Hispaniola has imposed stricter controls and eliminated any form of private arming.
"Your Majesty, I propose that an edict should be issued to take this opportunity to expressly prohibit all private armed and armed vessels in the Western Territories without the permission of the king."
The Viceroy of Canada, Fonseca, who had just returned from Newfoundland, made such a suggestion to Ferdinand after sharing the "good news" of the report.
"Yes, so be it! Soon I officially issued the order. Also, I've recently received requests from some nobles and wealthy businessmen for permission from the royal family to colonize the area, and I have to say that they are really ......creative," Ferdinand nodded, and complained about the behavior of some nobles.
"Those requests are frozen, too! After the coastal strongholds were stabilized, some licenses could be issued to the nobility in South America, but the number was to be controlled, the management was to be strict, and private arming was not allowed. This is the western territory of the royal family, and loyalty to the order of the royal family must be guaranteed! …… As for Canada and the United States, I will have a formal bill later. ”
"Your Majesty, I still have an idea I would like to say, which was first proposed by a few priests." Fonseca made another interesting suggestion.
It was the clergy who had come to the New World, especially those in Newfoundland and Greenland, who shivered with cold when they first came to this bitter cold place, especially in Gotthobna, Greenland.
But then they discovered that this newfound wilderness was a heavenly place for the missionary work of the clergy!
The natives are too easy to deceive!
By Christmas 1495, the missionary work of the priests in North America was enough to shine in the annals of history.
Forty thousand Beotuks from Newfoundland converted to Catholicism in the spring of 1493.
More than 1,500 Indians near Quebec converted to Catholicism in the summer and autumn of 1495.
Delaware Indians (near New York), 1493~1495, about 1,000 people converted to Catholicism.
About 2,000 Inuit near Gotthob, Greenland, converted to Catholicism in the autumn and winter of 1495 (they were the main inhabitants of Gotthob).
Due to the invasion of the Labrador "Cosmic Tribe", Fonseca seized the opportunity to launch an unplanned war to conquer the Labrador Peninsula to deter the small and medium-sized tribes.
In the autumn and winter of 1495, Labrador was annexed to Castile and Aragon, and the territory of influence and control extended from the interior to the mouth of the Quebec River.
More than 40,000 indigenous Indians of Labrador were converted to Catholicism.
Nearly 90,000 people in North America (the Americas north of the Rio Grande, excluding the West Indies, Panama, and Brazil) have been fooled into becoming Christians. At this time, Spain also sent nearly 10,000 cantonment troops.
As a result, the clergy were able to fool hundreds of Indians to convert to Catholicism every day, and they felt that their lives had meaning and that their value was increasing!
Fortunately, the Spanish clergy, to say that in the Papal States, the Catholic clergy at the feet of God have become corrupt.
In the winter of 1495, the clergymen of the Reclamation Corps, on the basis of information from the Iberian Peninsula, decided to go deep into the St. Lawrence River valley and along the shores of Hudson Bay the next year.
Moreover, they proposed to convert all Indians to Catholicism by means of continuous evangelism, and to convert all Indians to Catholicism by means of continuous evangelism, and that those captured Indians should not be blindly enslaved and killed, but should be proselytized to convert them to God, repent of their sins, and develop them into Christians.
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Although Fonseca considered such an idea to be too idealistic, he thought it useful to suppress indigenous revolts in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and other places, and to convert the captured natives to Catholicism, especially some of the top tribal figures and even the chiefs themselves, which would dampen the indigenous revolt and hopefully reduce the resistance of the indigenous people after the massacre (after the massacre...... The conquered lands gradually reached "peaceful coexistence".
For example, the father and daughter of the chieftain of the Magana tribe, who were captured by the Cantonment Corps near Port-au-Prince in later generations, were shackled and sent to Barcelona along with reports of the conquest of Hispaniola. Now, you can use the chief for an experiment.
"Good idea, but ......" Ferdinand smiled and shook his head.
"The horizon is not broad enough, and the goal is not ambitious enough. I have long had plans to promote the Light on a large scale...... Missionary causes. ”
The Light is not afraid, it is afraid of organization.
"Isabella and I have already discussed, and today she will announce the establishment of the Holy Angels' Society!"
Hey? How is it a congregation of nuns?
Well, the Jesuit will show (?????) It's not time for my big boss to appear, so let's warm up first, how about it? Good steel has to be prepared for a little longer, and Ferdinand is already brewing. In 1497, we will make a glorious debut!
The establishment of the Holy Angels Society has a long-term foundation. It is not Ferdinand's promotion in recent years, but an organization that Queen Isabella has been supporting since she ascended the throne - the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception. It was not established at that time.
As the Catholic queen who regained the kingdom of Granada, she not only saw herself and her family as defenders of the interests of Christ, but also was very enthusiastic about improving the status of the Virgin Mary. For example, in an oil painting commissioned by Queen Isabella, the resurrected Jesus appears to the Virgin Mary in front of a house covered with a Castilian coat of arms.
According to the New Testament of the Bible, although Jesus Christ appeared six or seven times in front of more than five hundred people, there is no explicit statement that he will appear before the Virgin Mary after death, but Isabella paints this non-canonical story and hopes that the exalted status of the Virgin Mary will be recognized by the entire Christian world.
That is, the Virgin Mary is great because she is herself, not because she is the mother of Jesus.
Theologically, it is the Immaculate Conception.
Until the early Middle Ages, it was generally believed that the Virgin Mary was also tainted by original sin, and then in 1472, the then pope wrote a book in support of the Immaculate Conception, which led to a rift within the Catholic Church, and finally the pope was very angry and issued an edict "too serious", stating that "you guys are too badly torn, give me a stop".
Queen Isabella's support for the Immaculate Conception had an impact on the Church at the time, and the Catholic Church increasingly leaned towards the Immaculate Conception. However, the Orthodox Church and almost all Protestants still believe that Our Lady is also tainted by original sin. The Pope finally established the Immaculate Conception as one of the doctrines in the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of 8 December 1854.
As a materialist, Ferdinand first laughed at the tearing of all sides, further strengthening his materialism. After all, not everyone understands why the Great Schism in the East and West churches is caused by the Eucharist Rite of Communion (which of course is not the root cause).
It is worth mentioning that Ferdinand liked to eat bread for the sacrament in his heart, of course he couldn't say it, otherwise he would be so angry that Pope Alexander VI stamped his feet and told him to go to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, but Constantinople had fallen, and the Ecumenical Patriarch would not smile because of the personal interest of the King of Spain.
Thus, until hundreds of years later, the Immaculate Conception remains one of the major divisions between Catholicism and other Christian religions......
Secondly, if Ferdinand is forced to pretend to be a Catholic (in fact, he has been pretending to be 500 years), he still agrees with the Immaculate Conception on the grounds of personal three views, support for his wife, etc.
In addition, Ferdinand's desire was to promote the creation of a serious, honest order. In addition, there are some personal reflections on the Catholic Reformation.
The Congregation of the Holy Angels was originally founded in 1535 as a congregation of nuns, and together with the Congregation of Ursula, it is one of the congregations of nuns in the world.
Seeing that Isabella was interested in promoting the Sisters and missionary causes, Ferdinand proposed to replace the "Congregation of the Immaculate Conception" with the "Society of the Holy Angels", and not only believed in the Immaculate Conception, but also spread the Christian faith to the New World and even the world......