Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

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The sacrament of service in the Orthodox Church is actually the mass of the Catholic Church. The two are similar to the worship of Protestantism. The difference is that the former two have a lot of ceremonies, usually until noon, and you can’t eat it for a period of time before the sacrament of service is held. thing.

It’s an abusive setting. When I first came here for a few years, I often thought about setting up a fried chicken wing shop on the street opposite the church. When the people inside were hungry and doing the sacrament, they would forcefully blow in the air.

But now I'm used to being hungry.

Since today is a special day, the cheap old man who usually dresses up as I like, asked a palace etiquette guide and attendant to help me choose clothes.The court etiquette guide and attendant is an acquaintance, and he came to help me dress up for any important ceremony in our family.

He is very picky.The breeches I used to wear are no longer worn, and a white button-down silk shirt plus a dark double-breasted robe seemed too casual. Finally, I brought me a very popular champagne-colored brocade robe with a waist and trimming. The handsome guy Orlando starred in Kingdom of Heaven, the kind with a hooded robe, but this robe is not covered from head to toe, but like a windbreaker in the future, with two rows of buttons to fasten it, and then tie it on the outside. Put on a belt.The palace etiquette director looked at my dozen or so belts, and picked one decorated with plants and flowers, and said that he got it from his night sky observation, and today my lucky plants are flowers and plants.The flowers are white roses and the grass is lavender.

I rolled my eyes at this guy.

Astrology has always been popular in Dongluo. After thousands of years of continuous filling, it has long become something as mysterious as Feng Shui.And this aide is a veteran of astrology.

After picking out the colorful belt, I brought me a two-layer high-necked gown and a pair of trousers of the same color inside. After he helped me tie the belt, there were epaulets, ribbons, and stripes.

Putting on a pair of undyed black cowhide boots, I went to the floor-to-ceiling mirror and looked at it. The standard eighteenth-century Roman rich man dressed very well. Of course, it would be nice if it was a little taller.Give the 25-year-old ex-wife a hero to save the beauty, and then the probability of the scene of a physical promise is as high as 90%!

After finishing this, I went to say goodbye to the two people who listened to the private priest giving the sacrament in the church at home. By the time I walked out of the palace, the sun had already risen from the walls of Constantinople, and there were some pedestrians on the cool street. .

A carriage that could not tell the depth leisurely drove over.

Stepping into the carriage, listening to the sound of two attendants climbing up to the sides, I closed my eyes again, quietly enjoying the clear morning light.

As a result, by accident, I fell asleep....

When I woke up, to be more precise, I was woken up by the knock on the door. I opened my eyes, and the St. Irina Cathedral was not far away. Farther away, bustling crowds were entering the church gate.

The wooden door of the carriage was opened by the attendants, and I smiled shyly at the attendants on both sides.

St. Irina's Cathedral, here is where I do the sacraments.I remember that this cathedral seems to have the name of this building in the early historical records of Constantinople in 600th and [-] AD.The rectangular church has a colonnade on the outside, the main entrance is on the long side, and the short side has an ear chamber, and the roof is made of strip arches.Very standard ancient Byzantine style Basilica architecture.It is huge and magnificent, but it is no longer resplendent and magnificent. After a thousand years, no building can maintain its original appearance even if it is often renovated. Today's huge stone exterior walls have been baptized by the years, and the whole church is full of vicissitudes.

I got out of the carriage, went through a small path, and finally came to the side of the church door. The solemn and sacred atmosphere greeted me with the hymns sung in Greek.

The colorful flower windows bloom brilliantly, and the huge chandelier is shining brightly. In front of the prayer class, the bishop wears a bowler hat, wears a silver and white priest's robe, hangs an icon card on his chest, and holds a staff. Standing on the podium, below him are rows of black benches.

The Orthodox Church did not have chairs a long time ago, and people who came to the church had only two choices, standing or kneeling.But now, the Orthodox Church has chairs.This is undoubtedly something that my predecessor made up.

"Is it that our Roman Empire is so poor that we can't even afford a chair? Or are you monks so stingy that you can't afford to buy a chair?"

This is the original record of the predecessor.Just like every person who was born as a warlord and achieved the position of emperor, the predecessor always had to struggle a few times before he could find a target that he could win over and hit so as to completely regain the hearts of the entire empire.And at the time when it was looted by the Crusaders and the faith in Christianity was shaken, the church was the best target for surgery.However, he failed to come up with something like the iconoclasm movement, which was like a special period, to attack the church forces, but unfortunately, the great thing was that he didn't marry a brain-dead wife.

Having a good wife is really important.Look at the Isaurian dynasty established in the eighth century. The famous iconoclasm movement took place during this period. This dynasty, which only existed for a century, is a history of blood and tears between the emperor and the church.

Everyone knows what religion is. Take China as an example. Since Buddhism was introduced to China, it has become a parasite of the country every few hundred years because of various privileges, and then it will be wiped out once.The benefits of exterminating Buddhism are obvious, and the national power has been greatly enhanced.And because Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire, it naturally took the old path that all religious forces would take, and became a tumor of the empire.For centuries, the behemoth of the Eastern Roman Empire had malnourished the Church.The emperor of the Isaurian dynasty had no choice but to use the church to make a strong country, but it was said that the power of the church was deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of the Roman Empire, and ordinary fights could not shake the foundation of the church.Thus, the iconoclasm movement came into being.This movement is a sharp scalpel and a powerful weapon for the imperial power to fight against the huge but corrupt church. It brought chaos to the Roman Empire, just like in a special period, making the whole empire smoky, but this kind of chaos is also quite There is a meaning of breaking and building, who made those monks so fat.In just a few decades, Dong Luo, who had been reluctant to support the fight against the Arabs, not only regained the territory lost in the early stage of the internal struggle, but also severely beat the Islamic Abbasid Dynasty with a black nose and a swollen face.The entire empire showed signs of resurgence. If they could continue the iconoclasm movement, the Macedonian dynasty might be able to restore most of the Roman territory under Justinian in the ninth century in less than 200 years.

But there is no if in history. At this time, a brain-dead woman appeared, to be precise, a brain-dead queen.That brainless woman has the same name as this church, both named Irina.As an empress of the Eastern Roman Empire, she did not have Wu Zetian's ability, let alone her means.But if there is one of the heroes who contributed to the destruction of the Byzantine Empire in another world, she is one of them, and she is also a great hero, whose contribution is comparable to that of Cixi.Whoever makes people sell teammates and benefits in various ways as soon as they are in power, the painstaking efforts of the emperors of the Isaurian dynasty spent 100 years to build this woman ruined it in just five years.That kind of mood, if I had to describe it, it would be that I finally got to the end of the special period, but unexpectedly, I was kicked back to the special period because of that woman's appearance on stage.

I bought a watch last year..

But these are just the most insane part of Queen Irina. This guy actually kicked his own son away and became the emperor himself, letting Catholicism and Charlie in the west take advantage of it in vain!God, without her, there would be no Holy Roman Empire among the barbarians of Western Europe.It is even more impossible for the Catholic Church to completely compete with the Orthodox Church morally!You know, the bishop of Rome has always been just one of the many bishops in Constantinople.The ridiculous thing is that this woman was complacent about winning the friendship of the Catholic Church, and finally wanted to marry Charlemagne in a whimsical way to complete the reproduction of the Roman Empire.

cao!Such a woman's various selling teammates would definitely be classified as a scourge at the level of Cixi in the twentieth century.But she was born in the ninth century, so she is made a saint by the Orthodox Church.I have to say that Queen Irina really helped the Orthodox Church a lot, because of her convulsions, the power of the church was greatly revived. After she was exiled, the powerful, generals and localities supported by the church rose The governor's internal strife started for more than 60 years, abruptly delaying the revival of the Roman Empire for more than 100 years until the Macedonian Dynasty.

So, marrying a wife is a science, an art no less than military science.It's a pity that so far no man has thoroughly studied it and written something similar to Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Just in such a distracted moment, the attendant who was leading the way stopped in front of me, and I knew that my end had come...