Bl. Nicolas Investigational Report: 6th of Sigismund's End, 1862

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[!] This is a report disseminated purely to the Monastics and Clergy within the Canonist Church, including specifically the High Pontiff, the Curia @Froschli, and Father Katerina.

 

Investigational Report of the Order of Blessed Nicolas

on the 6th of Sigismund's End, 1862

 

 

The blessings of the Lord GOD be upon the Dicastery for Canon Law, their servant shepherds, and His Holiness, Tylos II.

 

Please find attached the findings of the investigation of the Order of Blessed Nicolas into the desecration of holy sites within the Diocese of Albarosa. It is the duty of a cleric to inquire personally should he believe that a breach of canon law has occurred. Those investigating were careful not to taint the reputation of the faithful, always inquiring in their investigations about the ownership of the shrine and never mentioning its desecration. The Order submits this report to receive consultation with at least two judges as to whether the matter requires the attention of an ecclesiastical court. Thank you, and GOD bless.

 

Findings of Fact:

1. In the year of our Lord 1855, an abbey in the diocese of Albarosa, upon the removal of locks barring entry to the place which were placed by the Vuiller family, was renamed to the Abbey at the Crossroads and was kept up by Sister Silence of the Order of Blessed Nicolas.
2. Adjacent to the abbey was a building once run by Sir Jarad Munnel Vuillerian known as the Destiny's Crossroads Tavern and Inn. This same tavern was, in the year of our Lord 1852, the location where a blessed event took place, when soldiers on both sides of the Tripartite War laid down their arms to spend Tuvmas together in peace and fellowship.
3. In the year of our Lord 1856, the Abbey at the Crossroads and the adjacent building was given to the church for the purposes of conversion into a monastery and domicile for the monks of a new order of monks to be formed by Father Jeremy of Sedan. The Church exercised temporal authority over that land.
4. In the year of our Lord 1858, the first floor of the adjacent building was consecrated as holy ground and was bestowed the name of the Shrine of the Wartime Truce, in memory of the Tuvmas truce. Furthermore, the Grave of the Soldiers of Broken Truces was placed just outside the shrine.
5. The church, through Sister Silence, maintained the Abbey and the Shrine, guarding securely the offerings given by pilgrims at the shrine through the Siege of Haverlock and the city's subsequent destruction by infernal forces.
6. In the year of our Lord 1862, Sister Silence left the Abbey for a period of several months to take a pilgrimage to the lands near the diocese of Pocitinata Maika, where she evangelized and meditated.
7. Upon returning to the Abbey after her pilgrimage that same year, she discovered that the Shrine of the Wartime Truce had been desecrated and the Grave of the Soldiers of Broken Truces defaced. In its place, the Shrine had been remade into the Destiny's Crossroads Tavern and Inn.
8. Upon alerting the church to this desecration, the Order of Blessed Nicolas embarked on an investigation of this desecration.
9. At no time was the shrine deconsecrated in order to turn it over for profane use.
10. The Abbey at the Crossroads was found to have not been molested.
11. Upon investigation of the tax offices in New Providence, the "Crossroad Abbey" and the "Crossroads Tavern" were for rent to interested parties at the price of fifty marks per year each.
12. Sister Silence questioned the City Clerk, Sir Jarad Munnel Vuillerian about the ownership of the "Crossroads Tavern." Sir Jarad said that he knew nothing about it.
13. Less than a month after being questioned, Sir Jarad Munnel Vuillerian posted a notice announcing the grand reopening of the Destiny's Crossroads Tavern and Inn.
14. In this notice, Sir Jarad Munnel Vuillerian confessed to the desecration of the shrine, stating that "Destiny Crossroads Tavern and Inn was quickly restored by Sir Jarad Munel with his Orenian banners holding strong."
15. In this notice, Sir Jarad made claim that the "dwarves turned the abbey into a shrine for their pagan gods."

 

Notes upon Canon Law:

1. Shrines are sacred places of pilgrimage for the faithful, made holy ground through the Rite of Consecration for the purpose of advancing virtuous living.
2. No iniquity should be perpetrated in sacred places.
3. A holy land is a region over which the Church through the High Pontiff possesses temporal authority, which is consecrated for a holy purpose.
4. Only a High Pontiff may deconsecrate holy lands to cede them or relegate them to profane use.
5. A person who steals from the Church has committed a crime against Virtue.
6. A person who sells a sacred place, or the use thereof, has committed a crime against Ecclesiastical Authority.
7. A person who obstructs the justice of the Church has committed a crime against Ecclesiastical Authority.

 

 

Spoiler

 

[Franczhiz 4053]

Monsignor Sir Joseph Clement  sighed - signing the Lorraine. "I would say, if there was a dwarven shrine on Orenian grounds - then yes, of course; remove such heathen symbol. But if it is a shrine to remind one of the many victims in this conflict then I would urge all Canonists; be they; Orenian, Haenseni or Savoyard, then do not desecrate. As an Orenian myself, I have lost family members in this war at the hands of dwarves - but let us not break the shrines that symbolize the sacrifices that Canonists were willing to make to defend their faith; no matter what side they were on. May GOD grant us the chance to reconciliate with our brothers and sisters.. it would be a shame to see the piety of all humans evaporate as if it never existed." He signed the Lorraine oncemore before the iconostasis within his home, inclining his head to the Saints that were depicted on such.

[ReveredOwl 5331]

"Desecrating a holy site just so he can continue with his fantasy of having a well loved and used tavern is ridiclous. The 'tavern' initially belonged to the church as part of the abbeys brewery and storage building and yet it was destroyed and replaced with a monstrosity that never finds any use." remarked Walton.