Chapter 426 Westmar Cathedral
Westmar Cathedral is a cathedral located in the lower town of Langton. To be precise, it should be the largest church church in the lower town.
The remains of a saint are enshrined here. This saint was a nun who lived here four hundred years ago. At that time, the Westmar Cathedral was just an ordinary church church. There's nothing special about it.
This nun has been helping the poor and taking in homeless orphans for decades. She spread the belief in the All-Father in Lower Langton four hundred years ago.
In the end, this nun, who was just an ordinary person, died of illness due to overwork. The local believers and people spontaneously renovated the Westmarch Church into a cathedral, and buried the nun’s body in the renovated building. Under the shrine of the rear cathedral.
Believers hope that the brilliance of the All-Father can protect this kind and kind nun so that her soul can return to the Golden Throne of the All-Father.
The nun’s deeds were later widely spread and gradually became one of the miracles of the church, and the nun herself was canonized and crowned a saint.
So in the first hundred years after the nun’s death, Westmar Cathedral was renovated again, and the nun’s remains were taken out and decorated with gold foil, gems and various satin jewelry. It was placed in a holy coffin made of transparent crystal and is still enshrined in this cathedral and has become one of the famous holy objects of the church.
In the following three hundred years, Westmar Cathedral has also become one of the famous church churches in Langton, with a large number of believers coming here every year.
The solemn cathedral and the Sisters of Westma enshrined on the altar have always left such a deep impression on people that every believer who comes here can’t even speak or pray. The voices were very low, for fear of disturbing the solemnity of the church and causing dissatisfaction from the church pastors and priests.
But today, the priests and priests of the cathedral broke the tranquility of the cathedral themselves. They took the initiative to remove all the chairs in the cathedral, and then asked a group of craftsmen to break open the floor of the cathedral.
The bottom of the cathedral is not solid, but crypts and catacombs built in the past.
In the past, the church would bury the bodies of believers here. Over the years, the underground of the cathedral has been filled with bones for four hundred years.
Several priests first sprinkled holy water around the smashed floor, and then led the priests and nuns to pray sincerely. After consecration, the workers were asked to go down and carry out the remains, and the The basement of the church was completely emptied.
At the same time, in the square outside the church, a large machine was being assembled. If anyone familiar with it saw it, they would know that it was the serpentine shield that Perficott had used in the north. institutions.
It's just that the one in front of me is smaller than the prototype originally manufactured by Purficott. It seems that the structure has been optimized and improved. Even the front excavation cutterhead has been upgraded, and it seems to have changed. Got to be more efficient.
"Your Majesty Cardinal, the catacombs of Westmarch Cathedral are too deep and there are many bones buried. I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to clean them up." A priest in white robes said to the red robe beside him The cardinal reported.
He is the person in charge of the Westmarch Cathedral. He has never been underground in the cathedral, but there are a large number of records kept in the church over the past four hundred years. Naturally, there are information about the annual visits to the church. A record of how many bodies were buried in the catacombs.
Although he only said "a lot", he knew clearly that it was more than a lot. According to records, more than five people were buried under the Westmarch Cathedral seventy years ago. One hundred thousand corpses. This number sounds very alarming, but considering that this is a number accumulated over hundreds of years, it is not so surprising.
After all, it took hundreds of years. Considering that there was a war between the Victoria Empire and Frans that lasted for hundreds of years, it was normal to have so many corpses.
But it was easy to bury them at first, but now it is very troublesome to clean up. Hundreds of thousands of corpses cannot be cleaned up in a short time.
“Mobile the believers and let them help.” The cardinal in red robe looked at the shield machine being assembled next to him. There was a trace of hesitation and entanglement on his face, but soon he He made up his mind: "Tell the believers that the purpose of cleaning these bones is to transform the cathedral into a shelter. Under the apocalypse, the church will shelter all the All-Father believers who need help! Now they need to clean these bones to prepare for the construction of the shelter." Make room.”
Hearing what the cardinal said, the priest wanted to say something, but finally decided to follow the cardinal’s order.
In fact, the church had notified the pastors in charge of various churches before, and he also knew in advance that the Westmarch Cathedral needed to be transformed into a shelter to protect the people in the doomsday.
Although the century-old monuments in the church were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of corpses underground were disturbed, since this was to protect more living people, the pastor felt that he could only let the dead make room for the living.
Soon, the priest summoned other priests and priests from Westmarch Cathedral and sent them all out to mobilize believers to help.
At this time, the news of the doomsday announced by the empire had already been known to the people. They were panicking at this moment. The church suddenly stood up and said that it would transform the church into a shelter to protect everyone from the doomsday. , which undoubtedly gave the public a great impression and trust in the church.
At this time, they heard that the church needed their help and to contribute to the construction of the shelter. These believers enthusiastically joined in the process of cleaning and moving the remains.
Looking at the believers who came from all directions to help, the red cardinal finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Westmar Cathedral is the largest church in the Lower City, and it will also be the largest shelter in the Lower City in the future. If it cannot be cleared out within the stipulated time and the construction of the shelter is not completed, it will be detrimental to the city. The whole scheme of the church had an immeasurable impact.
Especially according to the plan, this place will accommodate the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, and will also be responsible for the production of various materials. If a problem occurs, it will not be a matter of this one place, but will affect the entire Xiacheng District. of.
So the Cardinal did not dare to neglect this at all, and personally came to supervise the entire construction process in order to ensure that nothing went wrong.
Although mobilizing believers to clean up the bones will cause some mistakes and problems, this is nothing compared to the fact that the shelter cannot be completed on time.
So the cardinal can only let go of these believers and let the priests and priests of Westmarch Cathedral work harder.
(End of this chapter)