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| The Turbulent Priest | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 25 2012, 02:52 AM (89 Views) | |
| Tristan da Cunha | Jun 25 2012, 02:52 AM Post #1 |
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The Itinerant Priest The crowd in this dusty village in the Albanian mountains was in form similar to any other that gathered in Balkan market towns on Sundays, lingering after Morning Mass to feast on whole cows and bullocks slow-roasted over fire pits, the smoky aromas of sizzling grease and sinews drawing an audience to hear the itinerant preacher du jour. At the mess-tables the people helped themselves to heaping plates of meat and jugs of wine, filling their earthly stomachs with carnivorous nourishment, while the preacher filled their spiritual stomachs with a fiery zeal for God, the Virgin Mary, the Blood Royal, and other topics pertinent to the Genesian Catholic mind. But today, a particularly large crowd had gathered - perhaps 20 or 30 thousand men, women,and children, to hear today's speaker, a traveling priest whose reputation for preaching had preceded him. Anthony Castellammare dispensed the usual mixture of Scriptural admonition, folksy life advice, and political propaganda, but he did it especially well, with a particular and invigorating urgency. Father Anthony looked out over his audience- the dusty, wind-swept faces, filthy and greasy hairs heavy with perspiration under the relentless summer sun, the shabby clothes of workmen and peasants. These Genesian revival meetings were most popular with the Genesian peasantry who formed a sizable minority of European Byzantium, and even supermajorities in several pockets out here in the West, mostly places where the soil was poor and the living was hard- where the land did not interest the pioneers during the great Orthodox resettlements. This was a decidedly lowbrow affair. The rabble was obviously anathema to the Genesian aristocrats who were assimilated into the Palaeologid social order of the Empire, but even the bourgeois Genesians of the towns were reluctant to show their faces at these meetings, for fear of social pollution, and the bacterial pollution of the unbathed low-class crowds. If they were not the salt of the earth they were at least the scum of the earth. This was the raw material that Father Anthony worked with; their opinions the canvas upon which he painted. Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Jun 25 2012, 10:29 PM.
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| Tristan da Cunha | Jul 18 2012, 12:49 PM Post #2 |
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I'm retracting this particular RP and trying something different. |
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