Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 435 Living Saints
Facing Perfect's curiosity, Sabelle simply said, "Although you kill recklessly and are also affected by the emotions brought about by killing, this is not your original intention, and you are not addicted to it.

The focus of heresy is on belief rather than on the behavior. After all, the heretical behaviors involved in heresy are also very common behaviors in daily life. Only when they are taken to extremes can they be regarded as heretical behaviors.

Although some of your actions are considered heresy from the perspective of ordinary people, you are a favored son blessed by the All-Father, and the All-Father's grace is over you, so some actions that go beyond the boundaries are not a problem."

Obviously, this inquisitor of the Inquisition must have been reminded by someone before coming to Perfectok, or she must have investigated Perfectok in advance.

Otherwise, the Inquisitor would not have been so tolerant in the face of possible heresy.

At this time, the cardinal beside him also hurriedly added: "Because your act of saving the world, Lord Count, was personally proposed by His Excellency the Patriarch and jointly discussed and approved by the cardinals, you have been recognized as a saint by the church, and your act of saving the world has been recognized as a holy deed by the church. Although all this has not been announced to the public, some relevant personnel have already known that you have been favored by the All-Father."

"Saint? As I recall, the church seldom conferred the title of saint on living people, except for the original disciples of the Holy Spirit? Even if there is a certain gap between a saint and a saint, is it really okay to canonize a little girl like me?" Perfect had calmed down by now. Without the interference of impulse and anger, her thoughts became very clear, and she naturally discovered how shocking the information involved in the cardinal's words was.

The so-called saint is a title used by the church to confer on believers who have performed holy deeds or made great contributions to the church.

Compared with a saint, the weight of a saint is lighter, and at the same time, one cannot add the honorific title "saint" in front of one's name.

But even so, this is still a very honorable title. Like saints, it is basically not conferred on living people. Generally speaking, only those believers who have performed outstanding holy deeds and made great contributions to the church during their lifetime can be canonized as saints by the church after their death.

There is a chance that a living person wants to become a saint, but generally speaking, it is unlikely that the church will risk the public outrage 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, there is a high possibility that he will become a new saint.

The canonization of saints is no small matter for the church. The addition of each saint has had a profound impact on the church.

For example, the nun worshipped in Westmarch Cathedral in the outer city of Langton, after she was canonized as a saint, the churches of the church uniformly added a job of taking in orphans and caring for the sick, disabled and elderly.

This may seem insignificant, 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 the church have to undergo, and even whether the doctrine should be modified are all possible impacts of canonizing a saint.

From this we can see the importance of a saint who is canonized while still alive.

To some extent, the church has spent a lot of money this time.

But compared to all this, Perfect was more concerned about how his emotions were affected.

She thought she was not a believer in heresy, but the impact she received this time still sounded a wake-up call for her, making her very wary of this matter.

"Since I am a saint canonized by the church, and I think I have a fairly devout faith, and you also said that I am the son favored by the All-Father, then why did I lose my mind just now?" Perfect asked Sabelle the question that concerned him most. Sabelle glanced at the cardinal and saw him nod, then she asked Perfect, "My Lord, can I examine you? There are some things I need to check before I can confirm them."

Perfect nodded upon seeing this and allowed Sabelle to come to him and examine him.

Sabelle's examination was thorough but also very strange. It was somewhat like a physical examination by a doctor, but it also involved some religious rituals.

Including but not limited to placing a dish of salt in front of Perfect, and then letting her hold a crystal pendant in her hand and hang it on the salt dish; letting Perfect drink the holy water and then pray to the All-Father...

In short, after a series of troubles, the two heads of the intelligence department had their subordinates send over information about heretical beliefs, and Sabelle had not yet finished all the trouble.

Perfect could only have someone read out the contents of the report briefly while he continued to be examined by Sabel.

Compared with the information provided by the church, the information available to the empire is more inclined to understand how these heretical sects operate.

Among all the heretical sects, the Cult of Joy is the one that spreads the fastest in the empire and also has a very wide influence.

The reason is simple: these nobles are all greedy for pleasure.

Typically, a heretic of the Cult of Pleasure would hide his or her identity, posing as a foreign noble, which was usually genuine, and then host lavish banquets to entertain other nobles.

These parties are often extremely luxurious and hedonistic, and are a huge temptation for anyone with a weak will.

If a noble showed a pursuit of pleasure at a banquet, these heretics would begin to contact him, tempting him to continue to attend such extravagant banquets, and making the content of the banquet more and more unsightly. At the same time, they would gradually stimulate the senses of these participants, making their pursuit of pleasure more and more extreme, and their threshold higher and higher, until they were finally deeply trapped and unable to extricate themselves.

Then these nobles will become new believers of joy, and a new round of banquets will begin again.

With such a repetitive cycle, it is not difficult to understand the growth and spread of the Joy Cult.

While Perfect had listened to the report, Sabelle also finished examining her and replied to Perfect, "My Lord, I think you need to be more careful in the future. Your previous killing of those heretics has allowed the power of the heresy of war to affect your mind, making you irritable and angry, and you have also become more enthusiastic about killing.

I don't know where this influence comes from, but you must be influenced by the heretics of the War Cult, otherwise you wouldn't become irritable so easily."

(End of this chapter)