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, and was originally walled off from the town. , but after Joseph II ordered the demolition of the walls of Mechelen, the convent and the wall outside made no sense.

   Beguinage presumably is very popular in northern and northeastern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, western and northwestern Germany. Their success is linked to the forcible killing of many men by war, or military or semi-military operations, leaving a large number of women with no choice but to enlist the help of wealthy benefactors.

   There are a lot of children here. Even if Georgiana built a shelter in Paris, it was shocking to see that scene. Younger babies and their mothers were sent to the monastery in the city, and although the conditions there were not good, at least indoors, the place consisted of only modest-looking wooden houses.

   She thought she would see bad hygiene, like the industrial areas on the banks of the Seine, but the streets were so clean that she could even smell the smell of malt.

"There is a beer brewing factory nearby." The archbishop pointed in a direction and said, but did not take her in to "inspect", but went to a small church, which is located next to the chapel of the Great Beguinage. It looks like a little sparrow next to a behemoth.

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

  Georgianna 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 a St. Catherine, who is also the patron saint of most of St. Catherine's churches built before the 14th century. She is an eloquent female debater, and she has defeated her challengers with great knowledge. I fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, but she refused, so the lord sentenced her to a round sentence, that is, tied to a wheel and smashed to pieces, but the wheel broke during the execution, and later it was changed to beheaded. It is said that her wounds What came out was not blood, but milk.

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the archbishop walked straight into the church. There were many people sitting on the chairs of the church, but they were not here to attend the ceremony. The babies who stopped crying went back and forth, surprised to see the priests coming.

   "Is the great nun there?" asked the bishop.

   "Yes, just over the porridge shed," said the nun with the baby in her arms.

   "Follow me, please," the bishop said to Georgiana, and led her to the back of the church.

   The rest of the clergy felt themselves left behind.

   "Why did you bring me here?" asked Georgiana.

  The Archbishop did not answer.

They caught up with lunch time. A nun in her 60s was distributing porridge to the people in the queue. When they got the porridge, they would give her a hand card. Those who didn't have a hand card would not give it to the queue. Second bowl.

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

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

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

In the **** described by Dante, there are people who wear gorgeous cloaks that hang in front of their eyes and hold golden lights, but they are actually made of lead and are incredibly heavy. These people look like monks, but their actual crime But a hypocrite.

  The punishment of priests is on the fourth floor, where misers and spendthrifts are held, a **** of intemperance.

A true saint should be like St. Catherine, who was born in Siena, Italy, in 1347, to a family of dyers. She chooses patients with infectious diseases that others are unwilling to help. Although she occasionally needs to endure physical hunger, she still always in a happy mood.

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

  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 could not understand what she was saying, and she could guess from the expression that she was asking the Archbishop the purpose of his visit

   "We got permission to use the proceeds from the wine to support those outside." The archbishop said after thinking for a while.

Sister    was very happy, and she clapped her hands like a little girl.

  Georgianna had nothing to say.

When she was still at Hogwarts, she had encountered such a problem. Without financial assistance from school directors such as Lucius Malfoy, it would be difficult for Hogwarts to rely on student tuition alone. Hold on, and once you accept Malfoy's gold coins, you have to make concessions to some of his pure-blooded ideas, such as removing the "Fountain of Good Fortune" from the bookshelf about wizard-muggle marriage stories , and put some books on it that he thought should be read to the children.

When Albus became headmaster, Lucius Malfoy, together with several other school directors, banned Albus Dumbledore from becoming headmaster in the name of stopping donations to Hogwarts, in order to get rid of their control, It is necessary to develop school-run farms, greenhouses, potions, etc., which is actually almost the same as the Haller model.

   After seeing the failure, Lucius suspended the plan, but he kept thinking about how to drive Albus away.

Humans are capable of self-healing. This is a characteristic of an organism. A cut can heal a wound. 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 breaks, the machine stops, and the machine can never be restarted until a new replacement is found.

  Prussia is like a beautifully constructed state machine. Although it is shameful to be a deserter, you can survive. Prussia's escape rate is so low. This is all 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. For example, the windmill in front of Sanssouci Palace, the king has to pay for the loss of the miller when it is demolished.

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

  The elephant has been tied with an iron chain since he was a child. When it grows up, even if it has enough strength to break the chain, it will not try.

Frederick II decreed that torture was no longer used three days after his father's death, and adjusted rounds of torture. It was a religious ritual in which prisoners were tortured to death while alive. Frederick II It was changed to hang the criminal first, which retained the deterrent power of punishment and saved unnecessary pain and torture.

   If what Georgiana just said was blasphemous a hundred years ago, the Archbishop would not have laughed at her.

   Frank started with good intentions, he wanted these kids to be able to support themselves after graduation.

There is a carillon school in Mechelen, which specializes in cultivating students to maintain and maintain the carillon. Everything they have learned is useless without the carillon. However, if people who don't know how to operate the carillon, what it emits is not Music, but noise too.

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

The    waltz kept spinning, the country dance became a court dance, and musicians such as Strauss wrote waltzes.

   Turn and turn, just like the wheel of fortune, rolling over countless flesh and blood, advancing in the bumps, and finally leaving a **** imprint.

   (end of this chapter)