Back home from the Black Raven library, it was already 10:30 in the morning. After confirming the effect of the new thaumaturgy, Xia De did not cook at home, but left with Mia, who was interested in playing cards After leaving home, take a carriage to the Church of the Dawn.
When I was looking for a carriage in Saint Teresa Square, I already felt the festive atmosphere because of the young priests wearing priest robes and distributing publicity materials. When approaching Dawn Square, the happy atmosphere created by religious festivals in the city became more intense.
After two weeks ago on Thursday, the town hall also intended to restore the city from its wounds through large-scale civic events, so it did a lot to help the Holy Prayer in the summer of 1853.
With the Church of Dawn as the center, banners and ribbons were hung in the surrounding blocks. I don't know if the city hall issued the gold pounds or the Church of Dawn took out banknotes. The outer walls of shops in the streets directly connected to Dawn Square are all hung with the holy emblem of the righteous **** [Mr. Liming].
Pigeons flew under the misty sky, the bustling crowds converged on the church and the surrounding streets, and the lively festival also attracted more small vendors to set up stalls on the roadside, while the city hall turned a blind eye.
The carriage could not enter the celebration site at all, so Shad could only be placed at the intersection on the edge of the square.
There are almost all people around, and the sound of selling can be heard everywhere around the square. In the lively atmosphere, the cat held by Xia De was frightened and curled up tightly in his arms. Xia De knew that Mia was timid, but he didn't expect to be so timid.
Therefore, he didn't care about wandering in the square with tents, but went straight into the church.
Although the preparations for Holy Prayer were very busy, after the festival really started, Priest Augustus became more relaxed.
When Xia De saw him, the old priest was sitting in the last row of seats in the side hall of the church, listening to a middle-aged priest's lecture.
Usually, even on Sundays, such a side hall of the church can only be filled with at most half of the people, but today not only are all of them filled with believers, some people even do not stand in the aisle near the wall.
Knowing that Mia is very good and won't bark, Xia De stood next to the priest holding it. The priest nodded to Shad, signaling his patience.
So Xia De stood here for twenty minutes, listening to the lectures that he was not very interested in. After that, he and the priest walked out with the crowd that was leaving.
It was lunch time, and Priest Augustus was hosting Shad for a meal in the church. During Holy Prayer, the restaurant of the church was open to some invited believers, and the meals were very sumptuous, so Shad took Mia out, hoping that she would also eat some good food.
During the meal, Xia De did not forget to reveal that he had recently obtained a potion known as the "elixir of youth", and asked Priest Augustus to help identify it. The priest was very interested in this, and took the potion handed over by Shad at the dinner table, but did not test it in the church:
"I need a few days, and I will tell you as soon as I have any news."
After lunch, everything went according to plan. Outside the church is a lively celebration, while inside the church is quite serious religious activities.
Xia De was arranged to participate in a small prayer meeting. In a room with thick curtains drawn, candles and aromatherapy, he prayed to [Mr. Dawn] with the believers. If this isn't a church, then the spectacle is standard cult ritual.
Then, together with Priest Augustus and other visitors, we watched the baptism of three three-year-old children who were selected from families of senior believers. Xia De was baptized in the age of steam once, and this time was even more solemn. In addition to the high-power gas lamps, he also brought in steam pipes to spray steam mist, making the whole venue foggy.
This scene is not ridiculous. The solemn and solemn architecture of the church, the stained glass, and the religious murals above the head are perfectly combined with the hazy feeling of the steam fog. This excited the reporters who were taking pictures, and made everyone present wet.
Except for Mia, who was hidden by Xia De in his clothes.
Xia De only needs to follow Priest Augustus in the church. The old priest is in a very good mood today. During the interval of the event, he also took Xia De to see a new oil painting hanging in the corridor of the church.
The oil painting, of considerable size, is mounted in a gilt frame and is located in the corridor leading from the main auditorium to the eastern wing. The color of the picture is relatively dark, and there is no blank space in the whole picture. People wearing various dresses form a circle around the picture, and the stone bricks on the ground are outlined with shallow brush marks in the center of the picture, and a park is parked on the left side of the center of the picture. There is a carriage with a beautiful and elegant woman's face in the carriage window, and two people stand on the right side of the picture.
One held a pistol, and the other stood in front of him with outstretched arms.
"This is......"
Priest Augustus laughed, causing the wrinkles on his face to accumulate. He was in a really good mood.
Xia De couldn't help showing a smile, and bent down to check the nameplate of the oil painting. There are two lines on the nameplate, the upper line records the date when the oil painting was hung here, and the lower line reads:
【Blessed World-Commemoration of Holy Prayer Day 1853】
"How is it? This was painted the day before yesterday, and it was hung here just before Holy Prayer. When you didn't come in the morning, there were reporters taking pictures here. Maybe this painting will appear in the newspaper tomorrow."
said Priest Augustus.
Xia De is not dissatisfied. It is a good thing that others will remember what he has experienced.
He just asked curiously:
"Will this painting hang here forever?"
Xia De only remembers that the scene was very noisy at that time, and there was no such sacred solemnity as in the oil painting, nor did he feel as if he was sacrificing for some noble reason.
"It may take decades to hang, you don't have to worry, I know you don't want more people to know what you look like, so the face in this painting is not very similar to you. In addition, Queen Diana also saw it This painting, and made guidance on her appearance in the picture, she is also very satisfied with this 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 use this method to leave a mark on the church in Tobesk for decades:
"Will the church always find someone to paint this kind of oil painting?"
People came and went behind the two, and the festive atmosphere infected everyone. It's just that no one can recognize the protagonist on the wall, standing here and looking up at it.
"Of course, this kind of oil painting should only be available when it is memorable. You just happened to save the queen, you were seen by many people, and it happened that Holy Prayer was approaching. If it was an ordinary day~www.mtlnovel.com~ and You are only saving ordinary people, I am afraid you need to be shot eighteen times in the street before you can..."
The old priest shrugged and did not continue. Although it sounds cruel, it is the reality.
Shad’s speech was also in the side hall, and the church had prepared the speech script long ago, and asked him to speak without the script. Although the outsider was busy with the exam last week and had no time to memorize the manuscript, but with "she" around, Xia De read it twice, and she was able to roughly recount it.
Therefore, during the speech that lasted for half an hour, Shad just followed the voice in her heart and translated the ancient language she used into the modern Delarion common language.
The content of the speech was not new, and the theme was "God loves the world and God blesses the world". Although the core teachings of the Five Gods Churches are different, they are all religious groups that persuade people to be good. When promoting their own churches, they use similar methods.
The content of the speech was not very fresh, but the writers of the church wrote the content freshly with extremely high writing power. It even combined Shade's experience on the day he was shot, making the slightly didactic speech very attractive.
This kind of person who can write speeches can be regarded as a rare talent no matter in this world or in the hometown of foreigners. Therefore, after the speech, Xia De wanted to ask Priest Augustus to take him to meet the contributors.
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