Chapter 276: An Ancient Past
Could it be that this statue has something to do with that ridiculous act?
But it's not right, whether this statue is Jesus or the Virgin Mary, they are all wearing clothes, even if it is a little human, but the expressions of the two people are still very standard positive energy, how to look at it, I can't see any feeling of malaise, how can it involve lewdness?
"Yes, after that, the stone sculpture that was originally placed in the Papal Hall in St. Petersburg was transported here, and it has been preserved until modern times, and the bishop of San Lorenzo has put this stone sculpture in the most inconspicuous place, and the fortress is now all dust. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
St. John nodded, his voice melodious, as if he had also participated in the stone statue destruction movement, but Jonas quickly shook his head and threw this absurd idea into the trash can of his brain, this sport has been more than a hundred years ago, and even if Francisco can live, he will not be able to live to be more than a hundred years old.
"But, this stone sculpture, it, there is nothing forbidden about it, why is it put here? Is it because of Michelangelo's other works, that this sculpture is placed in this gray place, not on the brightly lit stand?" Jonas asked puzzled, facing the stone sculpture that reappeared in front of him through time and space, Jonas's cells were filled with something that had become a curiosity.
Now he just wants to know, why is this, why did the art created by this Renaissance master affect the fish pond in an unrelated event?
The first thing that came to his mind was Michelangelo's most familiar work, that is, David, a sturdy **** adult male stone sculpture, it is said that the man who was carved into stone was the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel in the tenth century BC David as the prototype, which can be said to be the most representative work in the whole of Europe in male body sculpture.
In Jonas's impression, this work has something that violates the instructions of Pope St. John, and this work is still placed in the Havens Chapel in Rome, which is close to the Vatican, and it is not impossible that it will be burned to the hem of his skirt.
It's just that whether this work is in this world or not, Jonas is not clear, after all, after he came to this world, Pope St. John has already gone to heaven, and everything he has done will naturally be praised or ridiculed, but those works of art that were ordered to be destroyed by his own hands will not speak, and no one will speak for them, so whether this work of art has ever existed, or has existed but been destroyed, Jonas does not know.
So when he said his guess, Jonas was very careful, and just expressed the doubts in his heart in very vague language, because he knew that a person at the episcopal level like Francisco must know something about the past, who called the Vatican Library the top library in Europe in terms of theology, and the information in it can only be read by insiders.
According to Jonas's idea, since Francisco's church has this work of Michelangelo, then Francisco must know something about what happened in those years, if not everything, and when the time comes, as long as Francisco acquiesces, then he will know how these works came here.
Francisco, however, reacted differently than Jonas had imagined.
I saw a mysterious smile on Francisco's face, Jonas saw the smile on Francisco's face, but he didn't know whether the old guy's smile was saying that he guessed correctly, or didn't guess correctly, or realized that he knew something he shouldn't know, and was thinking about how to deceive himself?
Immediately afterward, Francisco uttered something that made Jonas's curiosity almost burst.
"That's just the fuse, Jonas. In Jonas's opinion, Francisco's tone is completely like in the movie, where the opposite protagonist is saying "It's all just the beginning" to the filmmaker's feelings, but it's quite exciting, and Jonas is the same, and immediately asked:
"Fuse, Francisco, don't sell off, it's just the two of us here, aren't we? Tell me what happened back then? Anyway, those people are already dead, and if we talk about them here, they can't control us now. ”
"People die, but the community of men does not, Mr. Jonas, just as your grandfather is gone, but the Viscount of Birlo will still be inherited, and the same will be true when you die, including me, of course. Francisco laughed when he heard Jonas's childlike innocent words, but what he said was different from his laughter, but with some helplessness.
"Birth, old age, sickness and death, people are like this, but organizations, institutions, and groups will never disappear because of the passage of time, just like this church, it has existed for hundreds of years, and I believe that in a few hundred years, it will still exist, and I, maybe even the bones are gone. Speaking of which, Francisco obviously didn't want to say anything.
Listening to Francisco's self-ridicule, although Jonas wanted to know, the old gentleman didn't say a word, but from Francisco's words, Jonas still got important news, because when Francisco talked about organizations and groups, Jonas immediately thought of a church organization that was talked about by many people in later generations.
Freemasonry.
Yes, in Jonas's head, the first reaction was this, no way, although Freemasonry has nothing to do with what Francisco said, but as long as it comes to the organization in the Holy See, it is really difficult not to think about it.
At that time, Freemasonry was described as the mastermind behind the control of the United States, controlling the world behind the scenes, the supreme member of the thirty-three swords or something, and it was said that they put the Ten Laws of Moses, and they also did the stone monument in Egypt, and even the collapse of the Soviet Union had something to do with them.
Anyway, this organization is omnipotent, basically as long as you are an earthling, you can know something about Freemasonry, as if human history is built by such a group of Freemasonry members, so it is not surprising that Jonas was the first to jump out of this name.
Immediately afterwards, Jonas wondered from the words of Freemasonry and Francisco whether the work of "Mourning Christ" was also destroyed by a Christian group using this purge of St. John's work.
Or is there another organization that brought this work to Genaya and put it in this church and sealed it in the dust? Thinking of these secrets about the Holy See, Jonas was simply so brainy that he couldn't even take it, looking at Francisco on the side, he didn't care at all about the old gentleman's emotions that he didn't want to speak now, Jonas said:
"Mr. Bishop, there is nothing that will not be polished clean by time, the city of Rome two thousand years ago, the city of all saints, Jupiter, Athena, Apollo, the gods of the countries conquered by the Roman Empire all over the world have built their temples in this immortal city, and what about the current city of Rome?
Where are their temples, only St. Peter's Basilica, the Cathedral of Hattings, the Church of the Archangels, the Church of the Earth, and hundreds of churches exist in Rome, and the oldest of them is only more than 2,000 years old, and where will they be in another 2,000 years?
Tell me, a little boy thirsty for knowledge and knowledge, His Excellency Bishop Francisco, what happened to make this stone sculpture sit in this dimly lit aisle, not to be looked at by the people? “
"Jonas, what you just said is blasphemous. Instead of answering Jonas's words, Francisco uttered two very serious words.
Strictly speaking, Francisco is indeed not wrong, and Jonas's words just now are tantamount to admitting that those false gods are also gods, and putting Yahweh in the same position as other false gods, which is absolutely disrespectful to monotheistic Catholicism.
It's just that he was facing Jonas, and in response to the two words that came out of Francisco's mouth, Jonas easily retorted: "God loves the world, Your Excellency, I think that for those who claim to be gods in vain, my lord Jehovah naturally has enough heart to forgive them, isn't it?
"Mr. Jonas is eloquent and eloquent, but I have to applaud him. ”
Francisco didn't really mean to punish Jonas, and even if he wanted to punish him, in the face of Genaya's only nobleman with an army, the most likely thing that would happen was not that Jonas offended the Holy See and was killed, but that he died unexpectedly while the others didn't know anything.
In the face of inequality in hard power, as an elder, Francisco still knows what to say, so when Jonas said something reasonable, Francisco no longer continued to pursue the question of blasphemy or not.
"However, I may not be able to answer the organization, the group, and the organization you asked, and how this thing arrived at the church in Genaya, because I don't know. The clash of words between the two was over, and Francisco no longer continued to look for speech sickness from Jonas's words, but although Francisco seemed to have compromised, he still didn't say a word about what Jonas wanted to know.
"Don't you know, you're a bishop, Francisco, isn't this church yours? Aren't you a bishop? Don't you even have a Vatican library with information on this history?"
Jonas doesn't believe Francisco's words, these old foxes, all of them can win the Oscar and the Palme d'Or for their acting skills, who can guarantee that Francisco's helpless tone and self-deprecating face at this moment are not pretended, at least Jonas is not sure that an old man who was talking about his blasphemy with a serious face just now has a serious look that I really don't know.
"I am indeed the owner of this church, but I am not the only one who has it, in the past, he had 37 masters, and in the future, he will have countless masters, so how can I know much about this church a hundred years ago?
It is true that there are records of St. John in the Vatican Library, but only cardinals have the right to read those secrets, and I am just a bishop, and I can only know a few scratches about it, and as for those organizations that really exist within the Holy See, I don't even have the right to participate. “
Francisco said with some dejection, as a devout Christian, how could he not want to know more about the Son and the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the mountain of books accumulated by Christianity for more than 2,000 years, for a Christian like a Christian, the attraction of knowledge is as different from the position of Bishop of San Lorenzo as the difference between chicken wings and chicken buttocks.
But today, he is 64 years old, and it can be said that he wants to be promoted to another level, at that time, there was no possibility for the archbishop, not to mention that there were cardinals, cardinals, and then the pope above the archbishop, each level has the corresponding authority to view, so to speak, those things he wants to know, before he dies, it is impossible to know, which makes him not discouraged?
So from the very beginning, when Jonas mentioned this stone sculpture to Francisco, Francisco's face became a little bad at the beginning, even if he pretended to be relaxed later, he could feel the unhappiness in his heart, because there was a statue randomly placed in front of his eyes, and he didn't know where it came from, how it got here, and what story was on it?
He didn't know it!
For Francisco, who has the air of a scholar, the pain of this feeling of being close at hand but not knowing anything may never be understood by a person like Jonas who simply loves secrets.
Listening to Francisco's chatter, Jonas didn't know what to say, emotionally he wanted to continue asking, because he had a feeling in his heart that this sculpture appeared here, and behind it, it could definitely pull out something that interested him.
But reason told him that if he continued to ask, it might hurt the heart of the old man in front of him, which was not good, and now Jonas still had to rely on Francisco's appeal in Genoya to inspire those people who had fallen into fanaticism, how could he make him unhappy, so Jonas was just impulsive twice in his heart, and finally didn't ask.
But Jonas didn't speak, it didn't mean that Francisco was going to stop this conversation, only to see Francisco get up from the ground, stroke the hem of Maria's skirt carved in stone, and finally say something to Jonas next to him that made Jonas a Francisco drunk.
"Mr. Jonas, take this sculpture home. (To be continued.) )