A Public Letter to the High Pontiff

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A PUBLIC LETTER TO THE HIGH PONTIFF

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An icon depicting a liturgical calendar filled with saints and blessed of the Church.

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To the Vicar of the Lord, 

 

During my reported absence, I traveled to the Isle of Rhen in an effort to immerse myself more in the culture I so beloved before. I noticed a few discrepancies within the hagiographies I was presented with and noticed a few shrines dedicated to a locally-venerated saint and two locally-venerated blessed. Upon inquiries into the matter, several priests of Rhen reported a local synod beautified both Fyodor Carrion and Fr. Seraphim of Leora. I investigated more in the matter and found all details regarding the synod to be adequate and truthful. This was not a robber synod. As such, I have collected all the information and written in an organized manner with icons of these pious men made by Akritians so you may consider this canonization and these beautifications for the glory of the Holy Mother Church. The Church stands united in the West and East unto ages of ages.

 

May the Lord forever bless the Holy Mother Church,

Fr. Griffith of Gwynon, FSSCT

A bond-servant of the Lord.

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BL. FYODOR CARRION, FIRSTBORN OF EX. SIEGMUND

 

Fyodor Carrion was the firstborn of Ex. Siegmund’s children. The Lord granted the boy humility when he was born, giving Fyodor a clubfoot much to the displeasure of Ex. Siegmund. The holy Prophet, reflecting afterwards that the boy was unfit for the purpose of ruling and war due to his bodily disfigurement, believed the Lord  to have another purpose for Fyodor and opted to provide a education in regards to stewardship and the arts. The blessed instantly grasped onto the most intellectual of concepts and ideals, creating the renowned harvest system during his life and healing the ruinous lands of the Kaedrini wastes. After a prolonged sickness which afflicted the holy Prophet for some time, Fyodor Carrion sailed to Rhen where he lived a calm and peaceful life, helping build many cathedrals like the Cathedral of the Magian Flame, and passing away after an unknown amount of time.

 

Miracles:

• A frustrated architect who failed to accomplish his task of building a cathedral in Rhen pleaded to the blessed to help him with his task. Soon after, a blueprint with an assortment of intricate designs flew onto his desk from the sky. 

 

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BL. SERAPHIM OF LEORA, RENOWNED THEOLOGIAN AND ORATOR

 

Seraphim of Leora was a scholarly minded man born on the Isle of Rhen. When he was five years old, in a zealous fervor, he offered his life up to the Lord. From that point on, he exclusively read every theological book he could grasped his hands on and prayed many hours each day to the Lord. When he came of age, his parents paid for a ship to take him to the Orenian Empire where he began his acolyteship at the diocese of Helena under Cardinal Arthur. There he wrote three theses about the current lukewarm condition of which the Empire had taken to. After doing so, he was ordained and wrote several more theses targeted at heretical notions pushed by heterodox canonists and preached many famous homilies on the topic. After some years, the blessed decided to journey back to Rhen in an effort seek wisdom and discipline from the Schemamonks of The Holy Saint Mikaēl Tou Kórdova Monastery. There he found copies of Ex. Siegmund’s Aengulica Hierarchia in the Lendian script and Akritian script. He then translated from both copies to a more perfect state in both Flexio and the common tongue and sailed back to Helena to distribute the copies over the Orenian Empire.

He was later on moved to the diocese of Ves where he served as the Prelate of Ves for a few years before sailing back to Rhen to seek additional wisdom from the Schemamonks. On the voyage to the Isle of Rhen however, the ship was struck by a heavy thunderstorm that threatened to rip up the ship. The crew screamed to the Lord in agony, but Seraphim proclaimed the words, “Eímai edó, Kýrie! Párte ton sklávo sas sto stíthos sas!” or in the common tongue, “I am here, Lord! Take your slave into your bosom!” Seraphim jumped into the water and the waters calmed and the thunderstorm faded. The crew marveled at the sight and docked in Northern Rhen where they told all about the tale.

Miracles:

• A family prayed to the blessed to intercede for their young child to speak as the child was mute. The blessed heard their prayers and interceded for the family. The young child after the intercession asked, “Mother, Father, why are you praying for me?”

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[Monomakhos 1849]

Seraphim smiles down from the Seven Skies (or was it his skete? His skete in the Seven Skies perhaps...) at his brother’s work, humbled yet utterly unworthy of such praise and recognition placed upon him by people of his homeland.

[thesmellypocket 1859]

"The Church should institute a feast of all Saints of Rhenyar and Akritos..." suggests Pius.