Chapter 807: 715: Repent!
Chapter 807: 715: Repent!
Chapter 807: Chapter 715: Repent!
The crowd eager to attend the All Saints’ Day Mass had already started flooding into St. Peter’s Cathedral Square like a tide.
Schmitz discarded the newspaper, and instead of squeezing into the surging crowd, he turned and walked towards the side door on the south side of the cathedral.
At the door, several Swiss Guards stopped him, loudly declaring, “Stop! You cannot enter here.”
As an Austrian, Schmitz could barely understand Italian. He immediately took out a folded document from his pocket and handed it over.
“I am following the instructions of Assistant Priest Elcole to handle some matters and have come back late. You must let me in; I am due to hold the candelabrum in today’s Mass. Oh, it’s in the third row, fifth column.”
He spoke in Latin.
He had never imagined before, that this thing he’d learned as part of a noble’s education since childhood, would actually come into play one day.
After the squad leader of the guard examined his priest’s robe and checked the document carefully, he signalled his men to briefly search Schmitz, and then let him into the cathedral.
Schmitz walked down the corridor with his head bowed, a sigh of relief in his heart: Thank you, Jesus, those guys didn’t deceive me, this thing really works!
He couldn’t help but recall the scene when he met Dominic in a tavern that day, the first “organization” member he had come into contact with.
Schmitz had originally just intended to confront the Pope in person over his betrayal of the Crusaders, but the “organization” had offered him a more “direct” option.
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