Chapter 42: Prayer (2)
"St. Paul said: 'With that sufficient understanding to know the will of God, and to know how to know him, the knowledge of him gradually increases.'" Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info'
Therefore this is God's will, and the departure of this righteous man is not a mistake of mortals, but simply that God misses him and wants him to stay with him for a long time.
Now the righteous man has been taken up, and he should be remembered; The death of this virtuous person should be taken to heart. His peaceful fit was to sleep long and wait for the day when God would wake him up......"
"Amen—"
Dressed in purple robes, wearing an enamel crown, and holding a scepter, Father Adolphus prayed quite decently.
Of course, that's what he does.
Incidentally, the priest's robes, crowns, and scepters were all brought with him, and they were luxury items that only high-ranking clergy could use.
If it weren't for Magnus's strong plea, it is estimated that the priest would have kept the garment pressed to the bottom of the box and never taken it out again.
And in front of the priest are the families of the deceased who have wept into tears.
Although there was some disrespect to them, the scene was indeed embarrassing.
Because Magnus was the aggressor, the families of the deceased, their husbands, or their fathers, although they dare not say that Magnus must have killed them, absolutely had nothing to do with him.
If one day, a robber, a bully, kills your loved one, and a few days later asks for your forgiveness, will you forgive him?
Nine out of nine people don't.
It's just crocodile tears, it's just a hypocritical show.
However, Magnus really didn't want to be forgiven.
To be treated as a priest to pray alone, these dead people were not ordinary people, at least they were knights who were posthumously crowned. Magnus had Father Adolphus come and pray for them, just to win the hearts of the living knights.
As for those conscripted peasants who are more numerous, but no one cares, their status is humble, their lives are even more humble, and after death they can get a high priest to pray together, this is already an over-standard treatment, their families are already satisfied, what else can they expect!
It's just that this wastes a lot of time.
It took two days to pray for the group prayer, and then for the cavalry who had been ordained knights after the battle, and no matter how skilled the priest was, he could not do it several times a day, even if he was proficient in his business, reciting eulogies, and hurrying.
In fact, the priest was still busy for the rest of the year.
However, this has also had some very bad effects.
That's the local clergy.
The monasteries of Brittany, as we mentioned earlier, the Pope in wealthy Italy did not look down on this bitter cold land at all; The so-called abbeys were just a plot of land randomly carved out by the Duke of Brittany, and then forcibly grabbed a few priests out of nowhere to put on a façade.
Thus the local bishop - if the abbot can be called a bishop - has no status.
When Magnus approached the city of Nantes, the bishop immediately sent his priests to meet him, but Magnus did not see him, and after that, the bishop even went himself.
But Magnus still didn't see it.
This makes the bishop feel uneasy, as the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, although he has no status, but the husband is innocent, the bishop is in charge of the faith of the believers in the territory, and he is not at ease at all if he is not his own people.
If it was someone else, the bishop would have willingly given up, and he had collected enough money over the years to spend the rest of his life happily - but it was Magnus who called.
This killer king.
The rumors from St. Malo alone, the wind-like horses and the heavy guns that rained down from the sky, had already frightened the Bishop, not to mention the mountains of corpses he had seen with his own eyes when he had gone there himself.
On the night Magnus refused to meet the bishop, the bishop did not dare to sleep all night, for fear that if he closed his eyes, his head would move from his body.
Although Europa does have an unspoken rule of not killing the priests, Magnus is a barbarian from savage England, and who knows when he will suddenly go crazy!
It was only later, when Father Adolphus arrived, that the bishop breathed a sigh of relief.
It's good to come, it's good to come!
Come to me quickly, just say hello, and I'll pack up and go out at once, and I won't want anything, and I'll give you the monastery or something, without the slightest hesitation!
But the priest didn't come either.
The bishop waited for a day for the priest to come, and for two days the priest did not come; Until now, the monastery seemed to have been forgotten, and no one had come to deliver a single message.
In this anxious wait, the panic in the bishop's heart grew with time.
It's easy to understand, for example, if you're the head of a major department and you rely on your boss to get that position.
Then suddenly one day, your boss was shuanggui, and a leader was parachuted in above.
After this leader came over, he ignored you for several days in a row, neither wooing nor rejecting you, but just treated you coldly, what do you think?
Surely it can't be! It must be that this leader is busy with something, and when he frees his hands, it's time for him to fix you!
In the Middle Ages, it was much harsher.
For example, beheading, hanging, or something like that.
Do not doubt that in times of war and chaos, the losers of political struggles will never have the opportunity to make a comeback as in times of peace; It's like the Tudor dynasty of England, Queen Elizabeth I and her half-sister Mary, who finally took control of the power, defeated Mary and cut off her head - they are sisters!
And the bishop, he felt that he had not lived enough, that he was in good health, and that God had not yet summoned him.
But what can he do?!
He is not the Archbishop of Reims in France, he has neither soldiers nor money in his hands, even if it is his little private money, it may be enough to support a person to live a happy life, but to hire an army?
Forget it!
Mercenaries are the most undisciplined creatures, when they have money, they can say, once they run out of money, even a good gathering and dispersal is a luxury, and the first thing they want to cut is the dog head of this guy who dares to owe them wages!
Therefore, the bishop became thinner and thinner in this torture, and even the Duke of Brittany came back to life, and he probably didn't dare to recognize this guy he had captured with his own hands.
Until a messenger arrives with a letter sealed in wax, disguised as a wandering monk......
PS: I'm sorry for the late shift, explain the reason, the traditional program of the beginning of the university, drinking, those guys are really able to drink, almost gave me a broken piece, if it weren't for the internal urgency, probably I haven't woken up yet.
These two chapters are dizzy and timely.,The quality may be a little unsatisfactory.,If you have any comments, you can put them forward.,I'll correct it later.。
PPs: I suddenly found that the code word speed after drinking is so fast, and I don't think about it at all......