Ariadne, neatly dressed in dark dress with her black hair neatly raised, drew everyone's attention in the Great Hall to herself with a dignified voice that did not go well with her youthful appearance of simple outfit.
"In the Gospel of Manuel, chapter 19, verse 17, Gon of Yesak said, 'Go ye and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. ' Also, in the Gospel of Sandro. Chapter 7, verse 21, 'There are three who bear witness in heaven, the Word of the Father and the Holy Spirit. And these three are one.' Who are you to claim to know the truth better than St. Manuel and St. Sandro, two of the six apostle who served Gon of Yesak at the time!"
The atmosphere inside the Cathedral was quickly turned into chaos with the tumult of the roaring crowd. However, in spite of Ariadne's challenge, the Apostle of Aseretto responded with a gentle smile without emotional agitation.
"I am just a villager seeking the Word of the Goly God in the corner of a rural island village. But the Holy God did not continue to be a father, there was a period when he was alone and not a father. The eternally existing Holy God made out of nothing of His Son, who did not exist. Logic necessitated, the Son is a creature."
He calmly continued.
"The great Holy Gid said in Exodus 3:14, a spectacel, 'I am the Creator' and at the same time 'I am the only God.' Gon of Yesak is the son of the Holy God and a great prophet, but he cannot rise above the Holy God. Since there is only one divinity, how can the One who is the Son ascend to the same position? Isn't it the one and only Almighty Holy God we serve?"
It was a soft but very dangerous statement. Ariadne's attack on the Apostle of Aseretto was fierce. There was no shaking at all in logical consistency, and the phrases of the Cathedral that were attacked and grounded were accurate as if they had been memorized in advance and the stabbed at the right place.
"The Gospel of Paolo, in Chapter 3, verse 16, refers to Gon of Yesak as 'the Father manifested in the flesh of the Holy Spirit,' thus revealing that Gon of Yesak in the persona of the Holy God and His Son! Are you above St. Paolo, one of the six apostles? Does the Apostle of Aseretto deny the Creed?"
'There can be no denying nerves.'
'Are you denying that Gon of Yesak is a saint?'
"It's not similar to the claims made by the Moors across the sea.'
'Heretic... Is it?'
'Can I leave it alone?'
The crowd's turmoil intensified. It's a pity that the commoners were only gathered in the plaza outside and the couldn't enter the Great Hall, but if there were a mixture of commoners and nobles inside the Great Sacred Hall, someone would have thrown filth at the altar along ago and a fistfight would have broken out among the believers in the chapel. Leo III's secretary hurriedly jumped up to the balcony seat on the top right, opened the curtains, and raised a greeting.
"Your Majesty the King. The situation downstairs is dire. Shall we send people down to get them out?"
Leo III was a slow-talking, large-boned man approaching sixty. Shapely blue eyes gleamed beneath his thick, bushy white eyebrows.
"Which one are you dragging out?"
"Yes? Of course, that intrusive girl."
Leo III smiled brightly.
"If you pulled out the Apostle of Aseretto, you pulled it out. Why are you pulling out that girl? There is nothing special about being a daughter of whose family,"
Prince Alfonso, who was looking down from the balcony seat with a bewitched expression, answered.
"It's Ariadne."
"What?"
Queen Margaret, who was with him, answered instead of his son. Rarely speaking with her husband, she spoke to the King only when it was time to speak for her son.
"She is the second daughter of Cardinal de Mare."
Prince Alfonso proudly added it.
"She is my friend."
The King looked at his flawless son with a smile.
"You have an interesting friend."
Seeing the happy King, the secretary stamped his foot in excitement.
"Your Majesty, the atmosphere downstairs is unusual. It looks like we have to do something. What I have to do with this?"
***
It wasn't jut Leo III's secretary who was stamping his feet.
"No, she's out there!"
Cardinal de Mare was mad and on the verge of jumping. The problem of the Apostle of Aseretto and his followers was not a simple one. Pope Ludovico held the Council of Trevero and was eager to subdue the Apostle of Aseretto were not too strong. Pope Ludovico's refusal of Cardinal de Mare from the Council of Trevero, in principle, should have been deeply humiliating to the Cardinal. but Cardinal de Mare welcomed it in his heart. At the Council of Trevero, it was difficult to determine which faction would win, so it was very burdensome to take a side, because thanks to the action of the Pope, it was possible to maintain neutrality with a just cause.
It was the moderation he had been keeping with such difficulty, but his 15-year-old illegitimate daughter, who had only been studying theology for two months, was arguing with the Apostle of Aseretto in front of everyone! While biting his nails, Cardinal de Mare made up his mind to call the priests, pull out Ariadne, and apologize for causing a disturbance to the Apostle to Aseretto.
Rumble!
The main entrance door to the barn opened with a loud noise. Those who opened the huge wooden door were wearing small triangular white hats. Someone who saw the unusual white hat and black cross pattern on the shoulder insignia over the plaintiff's uniform exclaimed.
"Heretic Judge!"
Heretic Judge under the direct control of the Holy See were breaking through the main gate of the San Ercole Cathedral. Fifty or so sturdy priests, dressed in the uniform, rushed in line and rank. When Cardinal de Mare saw clergy from other dioceses, not under his own command, in droves, entered his domain, the San Ercole Cathedral. he jumped forward in great panic.
"What is this now!"
"Cardinal de Mare, we have come from Trevero on orders from His Holiness Pope Ludovico to punish heretics!"
The Heretic Judge, who stood at the front, looked around with an arrogant gaze and then slammed his stomach.
"Where is Alejandro, the guilty priest!"
It was a word referring to the Apostle of Aseretto. A crack finally appeared in the expression of the Apostle of Aseretto, who was seated right in the middle of the central altar, where he was still preaching while having a war of words with Ariadne.
"Catch him!"
And...
At the command of the chief Heretic Judge, the priests under his command rushed out and forced the Apostle of Aseretto, who was on top of the central altar, to kneel. grabbed his hands behind his back, and bound him. The Heretic Judge went up to the top of the central altar, and on the contrary, the Apostle of Aseretto was dragged down to the bottom of the central altar, and their position were reversed. The chief Heretic Judge opened the edict he had in his hand and began to read it.
"Listen, sinner! The Council of Trevero, held in 1122 A.D. reached the most thoughtful theological conclusions after impartial debate."
Sensing his fate, the Apostle of Aseretto began to struggle. The sturdy priest who held him down gnashed their teeth and subdued his defiance.
"I declare that the Aseretto school, which denies that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, is a heresy that erroneously interprets the Book of the Holy Spirit! That monstrous criminal, the rank-and-file Alejandro, is accused of misleading and deceiving the public, and is to be stripped of his priesthood and excommunicated on the spot!"
'Excommunication...!'
'Oh my God...!'
Excommunication was a social death sentence. Now, any follower of the Holy God could not have fellowship and social relations with the Apostle of Aseretto, no, Alejandro the Excommunication. Both the merchants who sold him food and the innkeepers who provided lodgings to him would all be guilty in the sight of the Heavenly God. He was no longer allowed to be a natural person except for a life wondering in the valleys of the mountains and rivers.
"And!"
The Heretic Judge's cries were strong.
"Anyone who follows the Acerettos who does not change his opinion will be excommunicated along with the leader, and whoever helps the Excommunication Alejandro. either spiritually or materially, will be charged with a crime worthy of excommunication! Pope Ludivico!"
Significantly rolling up Pope Ludovico's handwriting signed in red ink at the end of the parchment, the Heretic Judge turned to Cardinal de Mare.
"Cardinal de Mare, you too must be held accountable for the situation in which Alejandro the Excommunicate was preaching proudly in your Cathedral."
Cardinal de Mare's dark green eyes were stained with bewilderment.
'I got hit!'
It was because of Pope Ludovico that the Apostle of Aseretto came to San Carlo in the first place. The Cathedral even kindly designated the date for the Apostle to visit San Carlo. Cardinal de Mare accepted this without refusal, thinking it was just a ploy to keep him from attending the Council of Trevero. It must have been a number.
"Judge. It seems there was some mistake. I did not call the Apostle of Aseretto."
It was obvious that he would not be accepted, but Cardinal de Mare rolled his eyes as he made excuses in a servile tone to the Heretic Judge. It must be a direct subordinate dispatched under the King's secret order, but then nothing will work. Could it be that he is also excommunicated? While the Cardinal's head was yellowing, a small warmth entered his left hand and calmly held his hand tightly. It was Ariadne. The dark-haired girl calmly but firmly restrained the Heretic Judge.
"Mr. Judge. Please listen to me for a moment."
The Heretic judge snorted.
"No, because this young lady here is a child of a family, do you dare to interfere in the conversation of the elders who have the authority to interpret the words of the Lord God without knowing the subject?"
All eyes in the Great Hall were in them.
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