Pope Behind the Scenes - v3 Chapter 1

Cardinals all over the world, members of the Cardinal Corps, only a very small number of them are stationed in the Holy See in the country of Geny on a daily basis.

The vast majority of cardinals are branched into the capital dioceses of various countries. Under normal circumstances, there will be no more than two or three cardinals in any country in the world, basically all is a person.

And countries with strong religious influence, such as Poland, Austria, and Canada, will have several more cardinals stationed there.

Some countries with highly developed capital will also have two permanent residents.

At the same time, bishops are not equal to cardinals, and not all cardinals can join the College of Cardinals to become cardinals.

Cardinals can participate in the election system of the grand priests, but the final vote is determined by the cardinals.

Especially in ancient times, when transportation and communication were not developed, it was necessary to ensure that after the death of the great priest, the members of the cardinal group could quickly gather together.

Then the cardinals in various regions of the world will be elected by the members of the cardinal group to elect new grand priests, and the cardinals of the cardinal group can also stand for election.

The most classic case is when the Grand Priest was elected in the twelfth century, the successor of the Grand Priest voted by the Cardinals in Gheny was the Cardinal of the Diocese of the Holy City of Yelem at that time.

At that time, the election of the cardinals took only four days, because the Holy Bishop had been split at that time.

And even if the Cardinal of the Holy City Diocese of Yellen was confirmed as the new Grand Priest, the latter did not even know the news that the Grand Priest had passed away.

It was more than two months after he learned that the Grand Priest had passed away and that he had become the new Grand Priest before the messenger from the country of Genni sent the news.

Afterwards, the other party hurried to Genni to take office, which lasted for more than half a year.

In the past six months, the Pope’s chamberlain bears the power of the Grand Priest in the country of Genni.

So this was a very cumbersome and big hassle in ancient times.

In the modern age of the 21st century, thanks to the convenience of communication and transportation in the age of technology, even in 28 hours, a plane can fly around the earth’s equator.

This allows cardinals and cardinals from anywhere in the world to assemble in the Holy See of Guernsey as much as possible within 24 hours.

Prepare for the high priest election.

And now in the Holy See.

There are 278 members of the College of Cardinals, of which 110 are over 65 years old.

There are 52 people over 80 years old.

The 278 members of the College of Cardinals come from 65 countries.

Among them, 92 are from Europe, 38 from North America, 31 from Latin America, 26 from Africa, 14 from Oceania, and 59 from Gudong and Asia Pacific.

The people above are just members of the Cardinals within the Triangular system.

In addition, some church organizations that have been separated from the three religions independently have bishops and even cardinals with far-reaching influence when they develop to a certain scale.

The relationship between these independent organizations of the church and the Holy See is equivalent to the relationship between the lord and the emperor in ancient times.

Under the command of the emperor, the Holy See will not interfere with the administration of the independent church.

Among the remaining members of the College of Cardinals, there are 1 cardinal from Meda, 1 from Franciscan, 2 from Salesian, and even the more extreme Mormon Church has two members of the College of Cardinals Pastor, in addition to many other cardinals from independent churches.

The main reasons why this happens are as follows:

The role of the cardinal is to shepherd some of the more important archdioceses around the world “for example, as the capitals of provinces or capitals, such as Milan, Paris, New York, Washington, Manila”.

These pastoral cardinals in various regions are strictly under the command of the Holy See and have an orthodox background of the three religions.

But in the earliest period, both the Holy Bishop and the Xinguang Sect were split from the Sacred Itami Sect.

Even in the early stage of the split, they were suppressed by the Holy Itami Cult. In this case, the Holy Bishop and the Xinguang Cult could only desperately compete with the Holy Itami Cult for the division of the diocesan territory.

They also chose to assign some well-known people to establish independent faith organizations, and this independent church will be in the name of the Holy Bishop and the Church of Xinguang.

Going to preach in some St. Itami’s parishes, while not encroaching on each other’s parishes, it just affects the believers of St. Itami.

At first, the Church of St. Itami, who valued the dominion of the parish, was not very concerned about what such an independent small church could do.

But soon they discovered that this independent development of the church was like a terrible plague of faith.

Although it does not erode the parish territory of Saint Itami, it has changed the cells in the blood of Saint Itami, the most basic believers.

In the early stage of the split struggle, the Holy Bishop and Xinguang Sect only gained a firm foothold through this means.

But in the later period, this kind of independent church has developed to a very large scale.

Especially those of older and larger religious orders, such as Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, Medans, and so on.

In this regard, the top leaders of the three religions can only acquiesce to each other’s development, but traditionally speaking, each independent church must obey the Pope’s management of its own religion.

At ten o’clock the next morning, almost the whole world’s media reports mainly broadcast two facts as the main content.

First, the opening of the Holy Way.

The second is the martyrdom of the great priest.

At the same time, almost all the news media from developed countries around the world poured into St. Peter’s Square in the country.

Many news vans with national flags are parked at the outermost perimeter of St. Peter’s Square.

At the same time, media reporters from all over the world were broadcasting live coverage of the scene where the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the grand vigil.

According to rumors, the current Pope, Hughes Barrymur, has been staying in St. Peter’s Basilica overnight and has not yet come out.

At ten o’clock in the morning, the popes of the three religions also met with the attention of the public for the first time after the martyrdom of the great priest.

In the thousands of years of the Holy See’s development, hundreds of elections for high priests have been very troublesome.

Even in the 14th century, the election of the Great Priest took a full year and seven months. At that time, it was the first election of the Great Priest after the Holy Itami Sect split into the Holy Bishop and the Xinguang Sect.

Therefore, it is very serious for the three parties to suppress the chess-match alliance. In order to elect a great priest who matches their respective camps, the three sects basically form an alliance with me today, and I will stab you in the back tomorrow.

In the end, when the Pope could no longer bear it, he directly locked all the members of the Cardinal Corps into the Sistine Chapel, isolating them from the outside world, and the Sistine Chapel was closed layer by layer.

Only food delivery is allowed, and each member’s residence is a separate secret room, and it is absolutely impossible to secretly pass messages to each other.

Anything to discuss can only be in the lobby.

The three meals a day are gradually reduced. If there is no election today, the Pope will order the reduction of meals the next day, and the reduction will continue before the election.

In this way, the members of the group of cardinals persisted in the Sistine Chapel for two months before selecting the final candidate for the Grand Priest.

So later, before the election of the great priest, there will basically be two coordinations!

The three popes of the three religions could not be candidates, but as the leaders of the three religions, they played a leading role in the election of grand priests.

After all, the selected high priest will be the immediate boss of the three of them in the future, and they must carefully consider the religion behind each of them.

In these two coordinations, the first time was to ask the Pope for his opinion to see if the other party had a designated candidate!

There are three situations in which the successor of the Grand Priest can be determined.

First: Appointed by the Pope. As the supreme ruler of the Holy See, the Pope has the right to exercise all the rights of the Holy Lord in this world, including the appointment of the Great Priest.

When he appoints someone to become a high priest, he can directly skip the election system of cardinals and cardinals, and even if the appointed person is an ordinary peasant, as long as the other person is a believer, he can come to the country of Guernsey to succeed him. Grand Priest.

The Pope’s designation is that there is no need to see whether the other party is a cardinal or not.

Second: the election of the Cardinals, which was held in Guernsey.

The election of high priests must be carried out in strict accordance with the traditional way since the Middle Ages.

On the day of the election, the members of the Cardinals who were dressed in full dress entered the Sistine Chapel in the country of Guerns through the “Bronze Door” after mass.

Live in ‘secret rooms’.

During the election of the Grand Priest, the Sistine Chapel was completely isolated from the world, and the doors were locked and sealed, and no one could enter.

Except for an emergency telephone, all other telephone lines were cut off.

The only channel for communication between inside and outside is the two turntables on the ‘bronze door’. Food, medicine, etc. that need to be delivered are placed on the turntables, and the staff will turn the turntables and send them in.

The election is conducted by mutual election, with more than one-third of the votes being elected.

No candidate list is mentioned in advance, so it often takes multiple votes to get results.

During the election period, the information about the election must not be shared.

Thousands of worshippers gathered outside the Sistine Chapel in St. Peter’s Square, eyes fixed on the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, awaiting the results of the election.

Every time there is a vote, the chimney smokes once, and if the smoke is black, it means that the election has not yet been concluded.

If white smoke rises from the chimney, it means that the new high priest has been elected.

The third method is: unanimous cheers, unanimous cheers are a compromise method for the election of the great priest, when the Pope neither appoints the candidate of the great priest, and the members of the cardinal group of the three religions have no unified opinion.

Then you can choose the method of unanimous cheering. Unanimous cheering is that the members of the cardinal group present together call the same person’s name. The earliest theory is that in the twelfth century, the electors within the Church of St. Itami did not finalize the candidate for the high priest. .

Because of the internal factional disputes, they finally explained to the outside world that they felt the will of the Holy Lord, and the Holy Lord would choose someone to be the great priest, even if the other party was not a bishop, he could be competent.

The way to cheer unanimously is for the members of the cardinal group to call the name of that person together, which is actually a kind of fig leaf for the election of a great priest. Sleeping does not want to give this position to the other party’s faction, then the two groups will choose an outsider. All right.

In the historical records of the Holy See, the unanimous cheer was only used once in the twelfth century, and there were more than ten changes of priests in the hundred years of the twelfth century.

It was an extremely chaotic era in the history of the development of the Holy See.

When the eldest St. Edan Pope ‘Gabri’, together with St. Bishop ‘Hermisda’ and Pope Xinguang ‘Difange’ entered St. Peter’s Basilica at the same time, the carved door closed instantly. All that is left to the people is the mysterious reverie.

What will the young pope say to the three popes? In other words, Pope Xiufien already has a designated candidate for the next Grand Priest.

It is clear that the Holy Road has already been opened, but the world’s attention is all on the election of the Great Priest, and they don’t even study how to step into the Holy Road.

There have even been rumors within the Holy See that Pope Xiufien already has a candidate identified by the Grand Priest, Father Brewster.

The other party has the title of the person who killed the devil, and he is quite valued by Xiufien, and his background is also a famous family among the priests, the Anderson family, and his uncle is the previous great priest Nozos.

The niece is a prophet of the Holy See, there seems to be an 80% possibility that the next high priest will be Brewster, even if the other party is not a cardinal, as long as Xiufien nods…

So when entering St. Peter’s Basilica, St. Bishop Hermisda was the most confident of the three.

He seems to have seen that the next Grand Priest is still the Holy Bishop.

But the three of them did not express their own thoughts at the moment. They came to the front of Nuzos’s coffin and saluted respectfully. Each of them said a eulogy to commend the work of Nozos when he was in the position of ruling high priest.

Then the three of them looked at the solitary Xiufien who was sitting in the first row. There were two Pope’s guards behind Xiufien for protection, and the captain of the guard, Will, was guarding St. Peter’s Church. door.

Pope Gabriel of St. Edan is ninety-six years old this year, and he is three years older than Nozos~www.mtlnovel.com~ and is the oldest person in the high ranks of the Holy See.

Xiufien looked up at them and nodded silently, “Pope Gabriel, sit behind me, you are very old.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty, I originally thought that the person who died at the front was me, but I didn’t expect it to be Nozos. Nozos’s martyrdom was very noble. At this moment, his soul must be surrounded by the Holy Lord’s throne.”

The Holy Bishop Hermista pouted next to him, and the old guy Gabri said it as if he and Nozos were close friends.

“This afternoon, members of the Cardinal Corps from all over the world will gather, and then it will be time to elect the next Grand Priest!” Xiufien didn’t look back at the three people sitting behind him, he whispered, “Look at it. Do it!”

Xinguang Pope Di Fange asked, “If Your Majesty, you can appoint someone you are satisfied with…”

“I told you to do it yourself! But the funeral of Nozos must be completed before the election of a new high priest can continue.” Xiufien raised his voice, and the three popes looked at each other.

Then he silently said goodbye to Xiufien.

Half an hour after the three popes entered St. Peter’s Church, the ancient carved gate opened again, and the three popes walked out of the gate together.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, the three of them walked three separate paths at the gate, in three directions, left, center, and right.

The first of the two coordinations before the election of the Grand Priest failed, when, according to tradition, the three Popes came out of the gates of St. Peter’s Church, if they could not go in a different direction, and left separately.

Then they are leaking a message to the outside world, to the public, ‘The Pope does not have a suitable and satisfactory candidate in his heart. ’

That is to say, there must be a second election method, the cardinal election system.