Chapter 435 Living Saints
Faced with Purficott's curiosity, Sabel just said calmly: "Although you kill wantonly and are affected by the emotional impact of killing, this is not Your original intention is that you have not indulged in it.
The focus of heretical belief is on belief, not on the behavior. After all, the heretical behavior involved in heretical belief is also very common in daily life. Some behaviors can only be regarded as heretical behaviors when they are taken to an extreme.
Although some of your behaviors are enough to be heretical behaviors from an ordinary person's perspective, you are protected by the All-Father. Son of favor, the favor of the whole father rests upon you, and a little behavior that exceeds the boundaries is not a problem.”
Obviously, this judge of the Inquisition came to Perficott before. Someone must have reminded her, or she may have investigated Perfectcott beforehand.
Otherwise, the Inquisitor of the Inquisition would not have been so tolerant in the face of possible heresy.
At this time, the cardinal on the side also hurriedly added: "Because your act of salvation, Lord Count, was personally proposed by the Patriarch and discussed with all the cardinals, you are already a saint recognized by the church. Your act of salvation has also been recognized as a holy act by the church. Although this has not been announced to the public, some relevant people already know that you are favored by the Father.”
“ Saint? I remember that except for the original disciples of the Holy Spirit, the church rarely conferred the title of saint on living people, right? Even if there is a certain gap between saints and saints, can you consecrate a little girl to me? Is this really good?" Purficott had calmed down at this time, without the interference of impulse and anger. Her thoughts became very clear, and she naturally discovered the information involved in the cardinal's words. Just how amazing it is.
The so-called saint is a title used by the church to bestow believers who have performed holy works or made great contributions to the church.
Compared with saints, saints are lighter in weight. At the same time, they cannot add the honorific title of "holy" in front of their names.
But even so, this is still a very noble title. Like saints, it is basically not awarded to living people. Generally, it is only awarded to believers who have made outstanding sunnah and contributed greatly to the church during their lifetime. May be canonized by the church as a saint after death.
The chance of a living person wanting to become a saint is not impossible, but generally speaking, the church is unlikely to risk the public outcry and opposition from various factions within the church to canonize a living person.
After all, if a believer is canonized as a saint while he is alive, then when he dies, he is very likely to become a new saint.
The canonization of saints is not a small matter for the church. The addition of each saint has had a profound impact on the church.
For example, the nun enshrined in Westmar Cathedral in the outer city of Langton. After she was canonized as a saint, the churches of the church added a unified program to take in orphaned children and take care of the sick and elderly. Weak work.
This may seem inconspicuous, but for the church it is a major event that affects the entire church. How much additional work will be required, what kind of changes will occur in the church, and even whether the doctrine will be modified are all factors that will affect the canonization of the church. The possible influence of a saint.
From this we can also see the significance of a living canonized saint.
To a certain extent, the church has spent a lot of money this time.
But compared to these, Purficott was more concerned about how his emotions were affected.
She considered herself not a believer in heresy, but the influence she received this time still sounded the alarm for her, making her very wary of this matter.
"Since I am a saint canonized by the church, and I consider myself to be quite devout in my faith, and you also said that I am a son who is favored by the whole father, then why did I get affected and lose my mind just now?" Purficott asked Sabel. the issues that concern you most. Sabel glanced at the cardinal, saw him nodding, and then asked Perficott: "Your Majesty, Earl, can I check you? There are some things I need to check before I can be sure."
Perfect nodded upon seeing this and allowed Sabel to come to her side to check herself.
Sabel's examination was very detailed, but also very strange. Some were like a doctor's examination, but it also involved some religious rituals.
Including but not limited to placing a dish of salt in front of Purficott, and then asking her to hold a crystal pendant with her hand and hang it on the salt dish; having Purficott drink the holy water and then say to her All-Father Prayer…
In short, after a series of twists and turns, the two heads of the intelligence department have already asked their subordinates to send information about heretical beliefs, and Sabel has not completely finished the twists and turns.
Perfect could only let people read out the contents of the reports succinctly while continuing to accept Sabel's examination.
Compared with the information provided by the church, the information held by the empire is more biased towards how these heretical sects operate.
Among all the heretical sects, the Joyful Sect spread the fastest in the empire and also had a very wide influence.
There is no other reason. These nobles are greedy for pleasure.
Typically, a heretic of the Cult of Joy will hide his or her identity, pretending to be a foreign noble, which is usually a genuine identity, and then host lavish banquets for other nobles.
These banquets are often extremely luxurious and hedonistic, and are a huge temptation for anyone who is not determined.
If a noble shows his pursuit of pleasure at the banquet, these heretics will start to contact him, lure him to continue to participate in such extravagant banquets, and make the content of the banquet more and more disgusting. At the same time as entering the goal, the senses of these participants are gradually stimulated, making their pursuit of pleasure more and more extreme, and their thresholds become higher and higher, until they are finally trapped and unable to extricate themselves.
Then these nobles will become new believers in joy, and then start a new round of banquets again.
With such a repetitive cycle, it is not difficult to understand the growth and spread of the Joy Sect.
While Purficott finished listening to the report, Sabel also completed her examination and replied to Purficott: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you need to pay more attention in the future. Your previous killings of heretical believers, Let the power of war evil influence your mind, making you irritable and irritable, and you will become more enthusiastic about killing.
I don't know where this influence comes from, but you should be surrounded by. The heresy of the War Cult is exerting its influence on you, otherwise you would not become irritable so easily."
(End of Chapter)