It was already 10:30 in the morning when he returned home from the Black Raven Library. After confirming the effect of the new thaumaturgy, Shade did not cook at home, but took little Mia with him who was interested in playing cards.
I left home and took a carriage to the Church of the Dawn.
When we were looking for a carriage in Saint Teresa Square, we could already feel the festive atmosphere because of the young priests wearing clerical robes distributing promotional materials. As we approached Dawn Square, the pleasant atmosphere created by religious festivals in the city became even more intense.
It's intense.
The City Hall also planned to let the city recover from the pain of Thursday two weeks ago through large-scale civic events, so it provided a lot of help for the Feast of Holy Prayer in the summer of 1853.
With Dawn Church as the center, all the nearby blocks were hung with banners and ribbons. I don’t know whether the city hall gave out gold pounds or Dawn Church took out banknotes. On the outer walls of shops on several streets directly connected to Dawn Square,
All of them actually had the holy emblem of the righteous god [Mr. Dawn] on them.
Pigeons flew under the foggy sky, bustling people gathered into the church and surrounding streets, and the lively festival also attracted more vendors to set up stalls on the roadside, but the city hall turned a blind eye.
The carriage could not enter the celebration site at all, so it could only drop Shade at the intersection on the edge of the square.
There were almost everyone around, and the sounds of hawking could be heard everywhere around the square. The lively atmosphere made the cat held by Shade shrink into his arms in fear. Shade knew that Mia was very timid.
I'm young, but I didn't expect to be so timid.
Therefore, he didn't bother wandering around the square with tents, but went straight into the church.
Although the preparations for the Feast of Holy Prayer were very busy, once the festival actually started, priest Augustus became leisurely.
When Shade saw him, the old priest was sitting in the last row of seats in the side hall of the church, listening to the sermon of a middle-aged priest.
Normally, even on Sundays, such a side hall of the church could only be filled with half of the people at most, but today it was not only filled with believers, but there were even some people standing in the aisles against the wall.
Because he knew Mia was very well-behaved and would not bark, Shade held her and stood next to the priest. The priest nodded to Shade and told him to listen patiently.
So Shade stood here for twenty minutes, listening to the sermon that he was not very interested in. After that, he and the priest walked out together with the crowd that was leaving.
It's lunch time now, and Priest August invites Shade to have a meal in the church. On the Feast of Holy Prayer, the church's restaurant is open to some invited believers, and the meals are very sumptuous, so Shade takes Mia out, hoping that she will also
Eat something good.
During the meal, Shade did not forget to reveal that he had recently obtained the magic potion known as the "Elixir of Age" and wanted Priest August to help identify it. The priest was very interested in this and took Shade and handed it to him at the dinner table.
of the potion, but not identified in the church:
"I need a few days, and I will tell you as soon as I have any news."
After lunch, everything went as planned. There was a lively celebration outside the church, and quite serious religious activities inside the church.
Shade was arranged to participate in a small prayer meeting. In a room with thick curtains, candles and incense, he prayed to [Mr. Dawn] with the believers. If this is not a church, then this scene is
Standard cult ritual.
Later, together with Priest August and other visitors, he watched the baptism of three three-year-old children who were selected from senior believer families. Shade had already experienced the baptism once in the steam age, and this
One occasion was even more solemn. In addition to high-power gas lamps, steam pipes were also installed to spray steam mist, making the entire venue foggy.
This scene is not ridiculous. The solemn and solemn architecture of the church, the colored glass, and the religious murals above are perfectly combined with the hazy feeling of steam mist. This made the reporters taking pictures on the side very excited, and also made everyone present feel excited.
, all became wet.
Except for Mia, who was hidden by Shade in his clothes.
Shade only needed to follow Priest Augustus around the church. The old priest was in a very good mood today. During the break, he showed Shade a new oil painting hanging in the corridor of the church.
The oil painting is quite large, mounted in a gilt frame, and is located in the corridor leading from the main auditorium to the east wing. The color of the painting is relatively dark, and there is no white space in the entire painting. People wearing various colors of dress are surrounding the painting.
They formed a circle, and the stone tiles on the ground were outlined with shallow strokes in the center of the picture. There was a carriage parked on the left side of the center of the picture. There was a beautiful and elegant woman's face in the carriage window, and there were two people standing on the right side of the picture.
personal.
One man held up a pistol, and the other man opened his arms in front of him.
The man with open arms can almost be regarded as standing in the center of the painting, and the artist used the most exquisite brushstrokes to paint. Using ink and color, there seems to be a beam of light above the head of the man in the oil painting, making him seem to be bathed in holy light.
Center. People who look at the oil painting can tell at a glance that this is the protagonist in the picture.
"This is"
Priest Augustus laughed, causing wrinkles to accumulate on his face. He was in a really good mood.
Shade couldn't help but smile and bent down to check the nameplate of the oil painting. There were two lines on the nameplate. The upper line recorded the date the oil painting was hung here, and the lower line said:
[Blessed World - Commemoration of the Feast of Holy Prayer 1853]
"How's it going? This was painted just the day before yesterday. It was hung here just before the Feast of Holy Prayer. When you weren't here in the morning, there were reporters taking pictures here. Maybe this painting will appear in the newspapers tomorrow."
said the priest Augustus.
Xia De has nothing to be dissatisfied with. It is a good thing for others to remember what he has experienced.
He just asked curiously:
"Will this painting always hang here?"
Shade only remembered that the scene was very noisy, and there was no such sacred solemnity as in the oil painting, nor did he feel as if he was sacrificing himself for some noble reason.
"It may last for decades. You don't have to worry. I know you don't want more people to know your appearance, so the face in this painting is not very similar to you. In addition, Queen Diana has also seen it.
This painting gave me guidance on how she should look on the painting, and she was very satisfied with the painting."
The priest nodded and said, and then asked with a smile:
"Shadow, how are you feeling?"
Of course, outsiders never imagined that they would leave a mark on the church in Tobesk for decades in this way:
“Do churches always find people to paint oil paintings like this?”
People were coming and going behind them, and the festive atmosphere infected everyone. But no one could recognize the protagonist on the wall, standing here looking up at it.
"Of course, you only have this kind of oil painting when it is memorable. You just happened to save the queen, were seen by many people, and the Holy Prayer Festival is approaching. If it is an ordinary day, and you only save ordinary people
, I'm afraid you need to be shot eighteen times in the street to "
The old priest shrugged and did not continue. Although it sounded cruel, it was the reality.
Shade's speech was also in the side hall. The church had already prepared the speech script and asked him to deliver it without the script. Although the outsider was busy with exams last week and had no time to memorize the script, but with "she" here,
After Shade read it twice, she was able to roughly recount it.
Therefore, during the speech that lasted for half an hour, Shaddu just followed the voice in her heart and translated the ancient language she used into the modern Delarian common language.
The content of the speech is not new. The theme is "God loves the world and God bless the world." Although the core doctrines of the Five Gods Church are different, they are all religious groups that encourage people to do good. When promoting their churches, they use
The means are almost the same.
The content of the speech is not very fresh, but the church writers used extremely high writing skills to make the content fresh. They even combined it with Shade’s experience on the day he was shot, making the slightly preachy speech very interesting.
Grab people's attention.
People who can write speeches like this can be regarded as rare talents in this world or in the hometown of foreigners. Therefore, after Shade finished his speech, he wanted to ask Priest August to take him to see that person.
