Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 2303 "Forward!"

The Great Beguinage in Mechelen is located in the northwest corner of the city, near the fork of the Dele River. It is much larger than the Beguinage in Bruges. It was originally completely separated from the town by a city wall. , but after Joseph II ordered the demolition of the walls of Mechelen, the convent and the outer wall were meaningless.

Beguinages are presumably very popular in areas of northern and northeastern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and western and northwestern Germany.Their success has been linked to war, or military or semi-military operations that forcibly took the lives of so many men, that large numbers of women had no choice but to enlist the help of wealthy benefactors.

There are so many children here that even if Georgiana had built an asylum in Paris, it would have been shocking to see that scene.The younger babies and their mothers were sent to the monastery in the city. Although the conditions there were not good, at least it was indoors. This place only had wooden houses that looked very simple.

She thought she would see poor sanitation, like the industrial area on the banks of the Seine, but the streets were cleaned up, and there was even a smell of malt.

"There is a beer brewing factory nearby." The archbishop pointed in one direction, but he didn't take her in for "inspection". Instead, he arrived at a small church, which is located next to the chapel of the Great Beguinage. It looks like a little sparrow next to a giant.

"This is St. Catherine's Church," said the archbishop to Georgiana. "Do you know who St. Catherine is?"

Georgiana was a little surprised, because the St. Catherine she knew happened to be the nun who persuaded Gregory XI to return to Rome. She was from Siena.

There is also St. Catherine, who is also the patron saint of most St. Catherine churches built before the 14th century. She is an eloquent female debater who defeated her challenger with her profound knowledge. I fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, but she refused, so the lord sentenced her to be tortured by a wheel, that is, tied to a wheel and crushed, but the wheel was broken during the execution, and later changed to beheading. It is said that her wound It wasn't blood that flowed out of it, but milk.

Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a long time, the archbishop went straight into the church. There were many people sitting on the chairs in the church, but they didn't come to attend the ceremony. Babies who had stopped crying walked up and down, surprised to see the priests coming.

"Is the Sister here?" asked the Bishop.

"Yes, it's over there at the porridge shed." The nun holding the baby said with trepidation.

"Come with me," the bishop said to Georgiana, and led her to the back of the church.

The rest of the clergy felt quite self-conscious about staying.

"What did you bring me here for?" asked Georgiana.

The archbishop didn't answer.

They caught up with the time for lunch. A nun in her 60s was distributing porridge to those who lined up. These people had to give her a hand card after receiving the porridge. Two bowls.

A young nun saw the archbishop and ran over in a panic. The nun who was distributing the porridge stopped what she was doing and looked at them.

The big nun must have been very beautiful when she was young. She had very clear eyes. The moment she saw her, Georgiana had a feeling in her heart.

The Yin people said, don't run too fast, or you will catch up with your own shadow.

In the hell described by Dante, there is a kind of people who wear gorgeous cloaks that hang down to their eyes and hold golden lights, but they are actually made of lead. They are incredibly heavy. These people look like monks, but their actual crimes But a hypocrite.

The priest's punishment is on the fourth floor, where misers and spendthrifts are imprisoned, which belongs to the hell of intemperance.

A true saint should be the same as St. Catherine, who was born in a dyer's family in Siena, Italy in 1347. She chooses those patients with infectious diseases that others are unwilling to help. In a happy mood.

It's hard, and would Gregory XI listen to a little nun in her 20s if she didn't claim to have visions of purgatory, hell, and heaven?

The big nun gave the rice spoon to the little nun, then left the porridge shed and came to the two of them.

She spoke Dutch to the archbishop. Although Georgiana couldn't understand what she said, she could guess from her expression that she was asking the archbishop about the purpose of his trip.

"We have obtained permission to use the proceeds from winemaking to support those people outside." The archbishop said after thinking for a while.

The big nun was very happy, she clapped her hands like a little girl.

Georgiana had nothing to say.

When she was still at Hogwarts, she also encountered such a problem. If she did not accept financial assistance from school managers such as Lucius Malfoy, it would be very difficult for Hogwarts to rely solely on the tuition fees of the students. Keep going, and once you accept Malfoy's gold coins, you have to make concessions to some of his pure blood ideas, such as removing "Fountain of Good Luck", a storybook about wizards and Muggle marriages, from the bookshelf , and put a few books on it that he thinks should be read to the children.

When Albus became the principal, Lucius Malfoy, together with several other school managers, banned Albus Dumbledore from becoming the principal in the name of stopping donations to Hogwarts. In order to get rid of their control, Only then do we need to build school-run farms, greenhouses, potions, etc. This is actually almost the same as Haller's model.

Later, seeing that it was unsuccessful, Lucius suspended the plan, but he couldn't think of how to drive Albus away all the time.

Humans have the ability to repair themselves. This is a characteristic of an organism. A cut can heal. Although it will leave scars, it will not be like a machine. If any part is broken, replace it. If it is an important part If it fails, the machine will stop, and the machine will never be restarted until a new replacement is found.

Prussia is like a well-structured state machine. Although it is shameful to be a deserter, you can survive. The desertion rate in Prussia is so low, which is bound by iron-like discipline since childhood.

But although Prussia has a mechanized nature, it also has tolerance and justice. Those practices will not make its subjects feel uncomfortable, such as the windmill in front of the Sanssouci Palace.

Everyone is equal before the law, and the king is no exception, and the king also has to go to the front line and perform military service, so war orphans are sent to military orphanages for training and become soldier children who serve.

If an elephant is chained from a young age, when it grows up, even if it has enough strength to break free from the chain, it will not try.

Three days after his father's death, Frederick II decreed that torture should no longer be used, and he adjusted the wheel punishment. It is a kind of religious ceremony. It was changed to hang the criminal first, which retained the deterrent effect of punishment and saved unnecessary pain and suffering.

If what Georgiana just said was blasphemous 100 years ago, the archbishop would not laugh at her.

Frank's intentions were good in the first place. He wanted these kids to be able to support themselves after graduation.

There is a carillon school in Mechelen, which specializes in training students who maintain and maintain the carillon. Everything they have learned is useless without the carillon. Music, but noise again.

The principle of the music box is also derived from the carillon. The wonderful sound kissed by an angel passes through the hands of the watchmaker, and the steel needle inlaid on the metal cylinder moves the reeds on the sound comb to play the music, bringing happiness to the world. and blessings to others.

The waltz continued to rotate, and this country dance became a court dance, and musicians such as Strauss wrote waltzes one after another.

Turning and turning, like the wheel of fate, crushing countless flesh and blood, moving forward in the bumps, leaving a bloody mark at the end.

(End of this chapter)