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The origin of Emperor John
Topic Started: Dec 1 2005, 03:32 AM (362 Views)
Tristan da Cunha
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Emperor Jacob and his wife Princess-Consort Prudence had three children of which the eldest was Crown Prince John. John aged 8 acompanied his father on the trip to Catholic Europe where the heir apparent became afflicted with Egyptian plague and was subsequently left to die peacefully at a Jesuit monastery. Upon returning to Adowa Jacob officially deprived John of his succession rights and designated his younger son George as the new Imperial Crown Prince.

Miraculously, after a few weeks bedridden, John survived the pestilence, although hideously scarred on his face, chest, and left arm and hand. Otherwise healthy the young boy was convinced by his unique fortune to live out the rest of his life serving the merciful God, thus taking monastic vows in an Italian Jesuit cloister.
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OOC: Will he have strong relations with Catholic Europe?
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Yes.
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OOC: If he wished to return, wouldl he be welcomed back into South Africa, or is it that he cannot return? If so he will be warmly welcomed into Neo-Macedonia once the civil war is over.
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He will return to South Africa, although not welcomed, and somehow maneuver his way to peacefully take the crown after the current Emperor dies.
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Dec 1 2005, 12:41 PM
Yes.

Wonderful! :D

Southern Africa is becoming my new bastion.
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At a young age JOhn took to wearing an iron mask to conceal his hideous plague scars, although the people around him always valued him for the unblemished virtue in his heart.

Attending the seminary affiliated with his monastery in Apulia, to everyone he met, John was well known for personal piety, moral uprightness, and fervent love and devotion to the Church were also unparalleled. Academically, he was also well-regarded for his skills of classical rhetoric and insightful theological writings.

At age 22 John was consecrated a priest and monk, and on account of his merits was recommended by his senior abbot to the Roman Inquisition in Genesis City. John displayed talent both managerial initiative and nitty gritty logistics, thus rapidly advancing in the Inquisition hierarchy; until at age 32 was appointed a Grand Inquisitor and ordained a Cardinal by Pope John XXV.
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Dec 2 2005, 04:46 AM
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Dec 1 2005, 12:41 PM
Yes.

Wonderful! :D

Southern Africa is becoming my new bastion.

<_< :angry: :unsure: :blink: :o :( :ph43r:
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What, you are one nation in Asia that is Catholic. That can hardly be a bastion.
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OOC: Don't worry, Norightsia will always be the center and bastion of the Catholic crusade against all the idolators and atheists in Asia. ;) :ph43r:

IC: The controversial theology of the Crown Prince of SSouth Africa:

During his stay in Catholic Europe, Crown Prince John had a controversial history of theological musings dating from his seminarian days, when his doctoral thesis, purporting to study patristics, consisted of rabid propaganda in support of violent crusade against Prussia. THroughout his years as a pastor and Inquisitor, John published 5 books, dozens of essays, and hundreds of lectures supporting his radical ideas of Catholic militarism. Many of his ideas, such as calling for the destruction of all world governments and unification of humanity under the Catholic Church, proved even too controversial and politically sensitive, so that the Inquisition itself had to convince him to withhold his most radical ideas from publication. An excerpt of John's theology:

"Instructional Catechism" by Father John Solomonides S.J.

Q: What is the Church?

A: The Church is the perfect and immutable society ordained by God for mankind; only through communion with the Church does man hope to achieve salvation. The Church exists not just on earth or among living men; it transcends mortal human experience and is for all time and through all creation inseparable from God in Heaven.

Q: What is a State?

A: A State is a society created by man, burdened by his imperfection. States are flawed arrangements created by mortal man for petty-minded temporal profit.

Q: What is the relationship between Church and State?

A: With the Church, which was created by God, there can be no States, which are created by men. The Church is the only lifestyle and society intended or permitted by God.

Q: Who shall govern mankind, if there are no States?

A: Mankind shall be governed by the Church alone.

Q: Who governs the Church?

A: GOd governs the Church, through the Pope and his officers.

Q: What is the mission of the CHurch?

A: To embrace all of mankind in a single society obedient to God's divine will.

Excerpts from "Commentaries on Christian Dogma" by Cardinal John Solomonides S.J.

"It is through the Church and CHurch alone that mankind receives salvation and satisfaction. Earthly pleasures, the fleeting illusion of profit, and mortal desires, are rendered useless by the divine laws and activities of the Church. The Church does not rest and does not tire in executing God's will on this earth. The Church is destined to destroy all evil and all sin ... All that is mortal is swept away by God's grandeur; He has chosen the apostolic Church of Rome to annihilate mankind's petty ambition and desperate grasping of phantom goals.

With this in mind, the Christian religion once and for all resolves the contentious issues of secularism - what is the correct relationship between the Church and State? THe answer is that there is no room for the STate at all; God intends and demands that His Church is not only a cure for atheism, idolatry, or secularism. The CHurch's divine mission is to annihilate all sin, all mortal concerns, all nations, and all states, thus repealing meaningless artificial ambitions, urges, divisions, and boundaries so that every human on this world can enjoy salvation through the Catholic Church."
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OOC: I like it from an IC perspective. Basically sums up the whole point of Catholic Europe.
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Dec 5 2005, 06:40 AM
What, you are one nation in Asia that is Catholic. That can hardly be a bastion.

I'm hardly just Catholic. I'm essentially a Catholic Iran on steroids. And being the only nation in Asia is a contributing factor to my bastiondom. If it weren't for me, Asia would be completely beyond your control. Just think what kind of mischief Prussia could start there, what with the Order and all.
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Dec 5 2005, 08:07 PM
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Dec 5 2005, 06:40 AM
What, you are one nation in Asia that is Catholic. That can hardly be a bastion.

I'm hardly just Catholic. I'm essentially a Catholic Iran on steroids. And being the only nation in Asia is a contributing factor to my bastiondom. If it weren't for me, Asia would be completely beyond your control. Just think what kind of mischief Prussia could start there, what with the Order and all.

A bastion is though, really, a grouping. Don't think we don't value you, because the Church values Norightsia beyond all others.
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Dec 5 2005, 08:40 PM
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Dec 5 2005, 08:07 PM
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Dec 5 2005, 06:40 AM
What, you are one nation in Asia that is Catholic. That can hardly be a bastion.

I'm hardly just Catholic. I'm essentially a Catholic Iran on steroids. And being the only nation in Asia is a contributing factor to my bastiondom. If it weren't for me, Asia would be completely beyond your control. Just think what kind of mischief Prussia could start there, what with the Order and all.

A bastion is though, really, a grouping. Don't think we don't value you, because the Church values Norightsia beyond all others.

Saxe-Coburg is shocked an appaled! We fought the Prucks, consarnit! :P
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Dec 5 2005, 08:55 PM
Saxe-Coburg is shocked an appaled! We fought the Prucks, consarnit! :P

You also negotiated and compromised with them.
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Dec 6 2005, 06:21 AM
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Dec 5 2005, 08:55 PM
Saxe-Coburg is shocked an appaled! We fought the Prucks, consarnit!  :P

You also negotiated and compromised with them.

Well, we couldn't fight them forever, or they would have overrun us entirely, and then you wouldn't have a Catholic Saxe-Coburg. Besides, they left and offered us relatively good terms. Saxe-Coburg is just as loyal to Catholicism, they just also want to use diplomacy, not just be crazy and dogmatic. I mean, signing a peace treaty with Prussia which doesn't give up any land, and in which every concession Saxe-Coburg makes is matched by a concession by Prussia is really not betraying the faith. It's just being sane.

But I see what you are saying.
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I actually sent troops to CE to fight in the WW, but by the time they all got there the War was over :(
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Dec 6 2005, 06:02 PM
Well, we couldn't fight them forever, or they would have overrun us entirely, and then you wouldn't have a Catholic Saxe-Coburg. Besides, they left and offered us relatively good terms. Saxe-Coburg is just as loyal to Catholicism, they just also want to use diplomacy, not just be crazy and dogmatic. I mean, signing a peace treaty with Prussia which doesn't give up any land, and in which every concession Saxe-Coburg makes is matched by a concession by Prussia is really not betraying the faith. It's just being sane.

But I see what you are saying.

I personally don't think you would have been overrun. In reality, a whole organization of nations in battle against one or two would obviously win....that however, does not seem to happen here. :rolleyes:
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