I had redrawn a map on the skins and I had to avoid like the plague of cities with the names of saints.
It was the Saurochtones, the dragon killers...
The Church of the fourth and fifth centuries has no other centralization than that given to it by the emperor. At the local level, bishops continue to play a key role. In each province, the bishop of the main city took precedence over his colleagues and some older and more important Eastern Churches, such as those of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople, were formed and extended their authority to several provinces. In the West, only the Church of Rome plays a similar role
From the moment Christianity becomes the official religion of the Empire, the question of clarifying the boundaries between orthodoxy and heresy does not only arise within Christianity. The unity of the Empire depends on Christian unity and its profession of faith. This is ensured by Empire councils or "ecumenical" councils
In the fifth century, with the Pope of Rome, we witness the missionary awakening of the Church
With the barbaric invasions, the western part of the former Roman Empire was under the domination of air sovereigns, which posed a new problem for the Church, whose strategy then consisted in obtaining collective conversions by first winning over the leaders, often through princesses who were already Christian. Clovis was the first Germanic king to embrace Catholicism. Before that, Clovis was a pagan.
Saint Simplice (in Latin: Simplicius), originally from the Tivoli region, was Pope from March 3, 468 to March 10, 483.
Simplice was elected Pope at a time of incessant barbaric invasions that spared only the Vatican.
It was in 476, during his pontificate, that the Roman Empire fell, with Romulus Augustule. The ensuing schism led to the foundation of new churches in the East. But for the same reasons, its importance and influence increased in the West.
He spent most of his 15 years of pontificate fighting monophysism. With the help of Emperor Zeno, he had the authority of the Council of Chalcedon recognized and the Catholic bishops who had been expelled by the Eutychians in 451 were restored to the siege of Alexandria and Antioch.
Simplicius reorganized the Church's patrimony, regulating in particular the distribution of offerings to the poor. He sent priests everywhere to fight against the Arian heresy.
During his long agony, he entrusted the bishopric of Rome and the Church to the prefect of the courtroom Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius the Younger. He took advantage of his position and the collapse of the Empire to place the Church of Rome under the control of the Senate. Upon his death, Simplice was buried in the former Basilica of St. Peter.
ROME 477 SENAT,
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"Senators, Lords, I introduce myself, I am Prefect Caecina. Despite the barbaric invasions and the legitimate seizure of power by Odoacer, our dear emperor, we have another mission than the conquest of territories and the construction of our future Germano Roman empire!"
He made a gesture and a small animated object hidden under a sheet, a dirty prison blanket, was brought into the room.
"Excuse the smell, but I have to explain it to you first!"
Our objective is the total Christianization of the West and to build a strong and united church.
We have the support of the emperor but also that of the powerful Roman emperor Zeno!
Rumour has it that it was he himself who placed Odoacer called Odoacre at the head of the empire.
As you know, our objective is to build the kingdom of God and to extend it from Jerusalem to the cold and dark lands of the Normans, including, of course, Germania.
Yet, however,"
The Senate was getting noisy
"Yes, yes, I know, you're absolutely right
But...
The power of the saints is not to be taken lightly and it cannot coexist with paganism.
Paganism finds its sources in creatures that are not part of the original Eden or Noah's Ark. They are demons, blasphemers and they draw their power through magic and witchcraft. The latter is a real scourge of heresy which, against good care and service, recruits and obstructs the divine power of our Lord.
I have proof here!"
He suddenly pulled the blanket and showed a Dwarf bound and garroted.
The room made a noise in front of this show.
One of the senators asked, "What does this have to do with a dwarf? There have always been some!"
Caecina: "Yes, yes, I know what you're getting at!
But this dwarf is a telluric demon! They live and concentrate the wormholes that give profane energy to the pagans and generate their magic and evil witchcraft."
He took the tourniquet off the dwarf so he could....scream.......
Caecina: "Look at him, we would give him the lord in confession, but don't get me wrong! He is indeed an enemy of the kingdom of God! Look at him with his pitiful look. I'm sure he's praying to his pagan gods right now and he's cursing us!"
So the prefect took a vial of holy water
"This water comes from the Jordan, the purest and most spiritual holy water there is. It is still used for baptisms and allows the newborn to be part of the Christian community."
He dropped drops of holy water on the dwarf who began to twist and howl, his skin melting under the impact of the holy water. He screamed and was taken back moaning and seriously burned to death alone in his cell.
Caecina: "May a drinker purify this unclean soul and implore the mercy of our Almighty Lord"
After making his sign of the cross he resumed.
But the whole Senate was in turmoil!
"Bishop Caecina, it is the work of God that we have just witnessed!"
"What power"
"Never again will I doubt the faith of our Lord"
When the crowd calmed down Caecina continued: "As you know, the draconian plague is coming to an end. These creatures concentrated the most energy in their den and their extermination over the last 2 centuries has borne fruit.
We don't see much more and they would only be a handful. All this thanks to our Saurochtone soldiers, our holy warriors! Wrongly called "Dragon Hunters"
However, the presence here of dwarves and fantastic creatures proves once again that these monsters react like weeds. Until we extract the root, they come back.
But the damage is contained because our missionaries have sealed all the wormholes with crucifixes at the crossroads and a grid of the empire is being built. The largest sources of spiritual energy are sealed by churches and cathedrals under construction.
Senator:" But how does it work?"
Caecina:" But very simply, by cutting off their energy source, they weaken to a point where they can no longer fly and eliminate it becomes child's play.
This is so effective that if you soak a horn with holy water, the dragon in range of sound collapses to the ground and all you have to do is pick it up!"
The Senate applauded and Caecina explained that it was sending Saurochtone missionaries to all regions for the final extermination of the last dragons.
Caecina added: "Moreover, they cannot escape the borders with the grid that our dear priests have created!"Last night, I had a restless sleep and was worried about my dragons.