Chapter 453 About the Saints
St. Attila is a canonized saint by the Golden Oak Church.
The 'saints' are only those who believe in "unwaveringly", "excellent contributions" to the church, and "improving morality"... These are all open conditions.
In secret, you also need to have a strong background force, there are a bunch of loyal fans within the church, and your relationship with the upper class of the church cannot be too bad, etc.... When you meet the open conditions and most of the unspoken rules are in line with each other, you have a very small probability of being canonized as a "saint".
And the ‘saints’ are much cheaper.
The 'saint' canonization canonize only the Pope of the Golden Oak Church and the Pope of the Silver Oak Church, and the 'saint' are basically candidates for the church. In the history of Medland, almost no 'outsiders' have been canonized as 'saints'.
As for the ‘saints’, the archbishops of several major dioceses in the Medland continent have the right to enthrone a certain number of ‘saints’.
If you are a firm believer and firmly follow the various rules and regulations of the Golden Oak Church and the Silver Oak Church, and contribute to the spread of the faith of two noble gods, then you have the opportunity to be canonized as a 'saint'.
Of course, even if you really have extremely firm beliefs, you are following the rules and regulations of the church in your daily life, and you have unswervingly contributed to the spread of the faith of the two gods... If you are just an ordinary person, it is difficult for you to have the opportunity to be canonized as a "saint".
There are also a lot of unspoken rules here.
For example, you have to make great contributions to the main cathedral of the diocese; for example, you have to have good personal friendship with the main cathedral of the diocese; for example, you have power and enough influence in this diocese...
The above hidden rules are met, and the archbishop of a certain divine parish must be transferred from this divine parish to serve in the headquarters of the Dhaboku Temple, or to other divine parishes with larger territory and richer fuel, there will be a certain probability that a certain number of "saints" will be enthroned!
For example, the great priest Guan Xia, who served as the archbishop of the Diocese of the Delun Empire of Yingui Church for decades, has not yet been canonized by any 'saint'.
But if she went to the headquarters of the Daboku Temple in Yingui Church, then she would definitely be enthroned about ten to twenty "saints" in the early stage of her resignation.
Naturally, these "saints" will be grateful to the great priest Xia, so they will naturally give a large sum of "incense money" to make the great priest Xia rise to the high-end Daboku with golden wind. In the next few years, during festivals, these "saints" enthroned by the great priest Xia will naturally have the intention to send them to the Daboku.
This is the unspoken rule.
The unspoken rules recognized by the church and the 'saints'.
The reason why the great priest Guan Xia did not enthrone the "saint" during her term is that the "saint" involves too much interests and has invisible risks.
For example, the ‘saints’ can purchase a certain amount of divine potion from the St. Mayan Cathedral at a cost price.
As Joe once took, the powerful healing agent of Muteste's Tears of Compassion, the market price in Heidra Fort is 300,000 gold marks per piece...
This kind of potion is actually the natural leakage of divine power and some basic potions when the nuns pray, practice, and hold religious rituals. The cost, that is, the cost of those basic potions, cannot be said to be zero, but the total cost is about ten gold marks.
The cost is ten gold marks, the market price is 300,000 yuan, and the huge profits are sensational.
Yingui Church has secret evaluation standards for each major diocese at the end of each year. Every year, each major diocese sends the "incense money" of Daboku, which is related to the evaluation results of each archbishop in Daboku, their future promotion and rewards, their future within the church, and their impressions in the hearts of the pope.
Unless the great priest Guan Xia has broken his head, she will enthrone several "saints" during her tenure, and ask these guys to purchase various divine potions at a large cost price, and open a hole in her money bag.
Moreover, as mentioned earlier, those who were canonized as "saints" are basically impossible to be ordinary people.
Those who can meet the criteria for being canonized as "saints" are basically high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen.
These people are full of problems.
If three or five of these guys are incapacitated by the believers of the evil gods during his term of office, they will be tempted to become "heretics" by those believers of evil gods... Haha, this fun will be great.
On the contrary, when he resigned, he was a big winner in his 'saints'. This was a win-win situation.
First, I advocated to the headquarters of Daboqiu's church that I was able to manage the cathedral and how pious the believers were. You see, during my governance, so many people actually met the standards of "saints"... This is the so-called merit of education!
Secondly, when I resigned, the incense money offered by the saints and the filial piety of the future will be enough to ensure that after I resigned, I will still be able to have enough food and clothing, and will not drink clean water and eat black bread every day like the unlucky guys in the ascetic court.
Third, I have resigned and the 'saints' have been enthroned. All risks and losses are left to the successor archbishop. The losses caused by the divine potions purchased at a cost price will of course be borne by the successor archbishop. If these 'saints' are inappropriate, they will fall into a 'hereth'...
Haha, when I was there, they all became "saints", and when I left, they became "heretics"... It can be seen that the successor was not doing his job well, and that there was something wrong with her ability.
If you have a good relationship with your successor and are in the same faction, then the number of canonized "saints" will be smaller, and the canonized "saints" will be slightly older. In this way, these "saints" will not live for too many years and will not cause too much trouble to the successor... When these "saints" "receive to the arms of our Lord, the title of "saints" will be unparalleled, and all the troubles will disappear.
If the relationship with the successor is bad, even the factions of both sides are hostile... Haha.
In the history of the Golden Oak Church and the Silver Oak Church, there were once resigned archbishops in the church who directly enthroned more than 300 "saints", and they were all young and strong young men. One of them was only a teenager when he was enthroned, and the "saint" lived tenaciously to the age of one hundred and ten...
Moreover, these "saints" are basically from nobles. During their long lives, more than a dozen "saints" unfortunately participated in some evil god sacrifices and became "heretics".
Because of these dozen degenerate "saints", the three archbishops of the church stepped down in disgrace and "will willingly" entered the monastery with devout "repentance" and never recovered from then on.
The above are just the most basic benefits that the 'saints' have.
In addition to purchasing divine potions at a cost price and having the title of "saint", it also means that he is most directly protected by the church.
A person with the title of "saint" can apply for force to the church when he encounters trouble... Just over a decade ago, a great nobleman of the United Kingdom of Nice was arrested for "treason". The "saint" directly prayed for the rescue of the Golden Oak Church. An elite church knights raided the national prison in the United Kingdom of Nice and snatched him and his tribe members out.
Afterwards, the Golden Oak Church even stepped forward and demanded all the assets of the "saint".
In the following years, even the justices of the United Kingdom of Nice, who were responsible for handling this case, died inexplicably due to various accidents, and even their direct descendants died.
Having the title of "saint" is equivalent to a talisman of the highest standard on the Medlands continent. Whether you are an official or a businessman, unless you form a deep feud, basically no one is willing or dares to provoke.
Joe just turned eighteen.
With the strength he has now and the strength he can expect in the future, it is conceivable that he will be much better than the 'saint' in history who lived in his 110 years old.
Haven't you seen Margaret III live in her nineties, and still beauties-like, like a girl in her early twenties?
As long as Qiao is alive, as long as he does not have any entanglements with those evil god believers, no matter how outrageous he does, Yingui Church will have to wipe his butt obediently.
‘Saints’… This is the church’s signature to the general public.
The church will never break its own sign.
With Yingui Church behind his back, Joe was in Heida Fort. As long as he didn't commit suicide and provoked Margaret III, and a small group of big men who could not provoke him, even the church would have a headache. He could really walk sideways, crawls, and stands upside down in Heida Fort... and follow his various tricks.
Not to mention, the most tangible benefit that Qiao got right now.
The great priest Xia squeezed a smile on her face, and joined forces with several of the most powerful nuns, and under the supervision of Margaret III, she opened the secret treasure house of St. Maya Cathedral and took out a spare saint badge.
The great priest Xia pierced his heart and forced out a little blood from his heart. He used the secret technique to incorporate this drop of blood into the gorgeously shaped saint badge.
Several great nuns joined forces and used all their strength to squeeze out the last bit of divine power in their bodies, and little by little blessing on this saint badge made of "Divine Silver". The shape is nine osmanthus leaves to hold up a wreath of osmanthus.
The baby's palm-sized saint badge immediately rippled in circles of gorgeous, warm, and clear as the moonlight.
The great priest Xia also recited the magical mantra and blessed the last magical art to this badge.
She looked at Joe with a 'smile' smile, and glanced at Margaret III, who was standing aside to supervise, and said with a dry smile: "Joe, my child, come and accept the glory you deserve... I will send your information to Daboku as fast as possible... Your saint certificate will be issued to you soon!"
Chapter completed!