033. Come a crusade
Former Superintendent Heywood Carter has become a cardinal.
Franklin was praised by Luyo II for his previous good deeds, and he was promoted to a higher rank.
Bran is now allowed to finish most of his courses and no longer need to take them.
Quick-eyed and quick-witted, he now copied the documents issued by the high-ranking clergy, and the church documents announced by the monastery were also handled.
In general, only students who are accredited and ready to serve in the Holy See will be assigned to this job.
This position is not your average clerical task, and it has access to first-hand information from all parts of the mainland church.
“…… Surrender to the churches everywhere, to be poor, to be chaste, and to be obedient. ”
For example, the Church Oath Decree issued from the Holy See on July 14, emphasizing the Three Commandments, is intended to reverse the trend of pleasure-seeking, which in turn affects the expansion of parishes and the increase in taxes paid by the local churches.
August 6th.
"Sue me the followers of the Bright World, and change the name of the Holy See to ......"
The letter mentions that for a long time, the Pope has been addressed differently in different regions, resulting in four main written or oral titles for the Pope.
They are,
crown (earlier nobles called the pope, taking the meaning of the crown on the head),
Your Majesty (the kingdom of God on earth is the Holy See, so the clergy are called kings),
His Majesty (canonized as a contemporary saint, the title of Pope is the rarest),
His Majesty (another name for the Pope by the common people, which is mostly heard in the mouths of Orientals).
There were also apostolic titles, but after the Frankish emperor knelt down and begged for forgiveness, the ambitious Lujo II decided to raise his authority again, and all the faithful were henceforth renamed "Holy Father".
August 24th.
"The Holy Father is about to travel east, and will meet with the Orthodox Patriarch, please send personnel to escort and receive the ...... when passing through the surrounding cathedrals."
This matter should not be underestimated, and the spies scattered on the peninsula from foreign countries in the East immediately returned to China after receiving this information, and the Eastern countries were shaken.
Because some wise lords saw the meaning.
East-West Church Friendly - Come on a Crusader!
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On September 7, it was a rainy day, and the air was humid.
A procession of carriages, guarded by the Knights Hospitaller, made a large number of footprints and drove into the Grand Abbey.
The monks quickly came out to meet them.
"Defend the faith, help the suffering!"
The leading non-commissioned officers recited aloud the motto of the Order.
They wore a white cross on a red background, and the heraldic flag was also white on a red background, consisting of four "Vs", each with two vertices, symbolizing the eight virtues of knighthood.
"All glory be to the Lord."
"Welcome."
"I'm waiting with a letter from the Holy Father."
After leading the knight, he immediately entered the secret room with the senior management of the monastery to discuss.
Half a day later, the monastery rang the bell to inform that the Pope had decided on the route of his visit, and that he would finally enter Venice to talk and laugh with the Orthodox Patriarch.
The entourage list was a great honor, and many people wanted to go, and Bran was also selected by Franklin.
According to the old dean's idea, a talent like Bran is the right way to dedicate himself to the Lord, so I hope that he can go to see Luyo II and increase his piety.
But before Bran really set foot in his native Venice, war was approaching in the distance!
Eight days later, a fierce army of scimitar cavalry trampled over the Byzantine fields with shouts, and cut off human heads like ears of wheat with their maligns.
The war spread, and the "Ottomans" invaded "Byzantium" in a full-scale way, or rather, Byzantium launched a great war.
The two bigwigs could only postpone the meeting indefinitely.
The fact that this battle was started by women is not uncommon in history books, especially among noble women.
The woman who was robbed will be given the notoriety of "enchantress" afterwards.
Since the reign of the Four Emperors, Byzantium has had many chaotic periods of rule.
A.E. 1066, this is a very famous year on the continent.
In this year, William the Conqueror ascended the throne of England, and he brought the ruling system and technology of the South to the northern frontier that was divided and destroyed by the Vikings.
The Byzantine Empire in the far southeast also established the "primogeniture law" in this year.
At that time, the nobles of each military town signed a regulation document, which mentioned that the royal family "born in the purple family" had the priority of inheritance...... At the same time, the women of the Purple Room were selected from the Junzhen family.
Purple pigment is rare, and it was a noble color in Roman times, and Byzantium, which professed to be orthodox Rome, built a magnificent purple house with a pointed arch in the capital city of Constantinople.
When every queen is about to give birth, she will be waiting to give birth in the purple house, and the offspring born in it will only be born in purple robes.
That is to say, when a baby is born, the parents must be the emperor and empress who reign at the same time, and the child is the real purple robe, both of which are indispensable.
A few days ago, a general under the command of "Prince Gramiyan", known as the "Tiger of the Ottomans" in the country, led an army to invade Asia Minor and plunder.
At that time, the royal princess "Zoe", who was traveling with her husband nearby, encountered a catastrophe and became a captive.
After capturing the princess, the general took a look at it, and then presented the princess to Gramiyan for a reward.
At the first sight of the big tent, Gramiyan could hardly forget Yi Rongyan.
It's really ugly, and there is no part of the facial features, which is in line with the opinion of Gramiyan, the prince of the East, on "beauty".
But on the same day he took the princess and made her his first wife, and beheaded her husband.
This unfortunate husband, if he is dressed in a women's robe, is actually better than Zoe, and the reason why Gramiyan is like this is because the identity of this princess is too noble!
Zoe is not an ordinary royal princess, but the sister of the current Byzantine emperor, who was also "born in the purple room", if it is a man, then she is the one who becomes the current Purple Emperor.
Byzantium ordered the Ottomans to hand over and sent 5,000 men to loot the Ottoman borders along the route.
But Gramiyan was not afraid, even if 50,000 people came, if Zoe could give birth to a male heir, but he had the status of claiming Byzantium, this was the most fatal thing, and it was also the most feared thing in Byzantium.
In the future, this man can rely on this wife and children to claim the entire purple room.
The Ottomans and Byzantium, which are bordered by a small number of countries, have very different inheritance laws.
The "Law of Succession of the Strong", also known as the "Law of Succession of Relatives", every time a sultan dies, the princes must get rid of all their brothers in order to become the supreme sultan.
"The world is so vast that it can only accommodate one sun to shine, and a kingdom can only have one king!"
These words are written in the Ottoman Codex, and the desire for conquest is woven into the blood of every prince.
Each Ottoman prince had a private army and his own courtiers, and the king sent them to the conquered territories to reorganize, so that the weak could be devoured and the strong could survive.
Gramiyan, who took the princess, was the leader of his generation, and his father rose to power during the Second Crusade, killing six of his brothers.
At the age of twenty-four, Gramiyan was only the third son, but he commanded seven victories, giving him more than a third of the kingdom's troops, and his old father had little time to live, and the eight brothers he left behind would be victorious under his butcher's knife if nothing happened.
There have also been two younger brothers, who have personally come to him and cry and beg to let them go after they inherit the throne of the Sultan, which shows their terrible horror.
The princes raised under this inheritance law were ambitious.
It is impossible to get Gramiyan to make friends, he still wants to start a bigger war and take power faster, he can't even wait for his old father, and he still drags on the throne without dying of illness.