Chapter 726 Whirlpool

The Church of Our Lady of Ankang is located at the entrance of the Grand Canal. If you drive from the sea, you will see it at first sight, as well as St. Mark's Cathedral.

According to records in the Old Testament of the Bible, there was a Semitic named Abraham after Noah. He had a son when he was 99 years old. One day Jehovah suddenly came and asked him to kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice. Isaac did not know that he was a sacrifice, so he followed his father up the mountain.

, Abraham prepared everything, and when he was about to put his son on the altar and was about to use the knife, an angel flew to hold his hand and stopped him from killing his son. He told him that it was just a test from Jehovah and used sheep as a sacrifice instead.

People's devotion to God has reached the point of being desperate. When Venice was at war with the Ottoman Empire and was in urgent need of military funds, as well as reconstruction work after the plague, allocating funds to repair churches when money was so urgently needed was similar to the embezzlement of military funds during the Qing Dynasty.

What is the difference between the Summer Palace and the Summer Palace?

Rational people know that it is irrational to do so, and the money should be used where it is more needed. However, building a church for Our Lady after the plague is a commitment, a contract, and the Venetians believe that this commitment must be fulfilled.

The Church of Our Lady of Ankang must be repaired no matter what, just like Abraham almost killed his hard-won son in order to show his piety to God.

God made a joke to Abraham. He didn't really want Isaac's life, so he used another "lamb" as a sacrifice.

Among so many architects, the Venetians chose Baldassare Longner, a 33-year-old young man who was not considered experienced among architects at this age.

However, a man of this age is in his prime, and his vision of women is different from that of 20-year-olds and middle-aged and elderly people after 40 years old.

When a man likes a woman, it has nothing to do with what she wears, because in the end, she has to take it off. At this time, the shortcomings of the clothing will be exposed. The originally beautiful imagination is different from the reality, but it will make people lose interest.

Some men don't like women wearing heavy makeup, not only because they don't want to kiss the powder on their lips, but also because if the powder is too thick, it looks like a mask.

When the sun began to set, tourists holding cameras during the day returned to the boat, and dormant revelers came out one after another. In front of the Church of Our Lady of Ankang, there were also many masked guests wearing gorgeous medieval dresses. Because of them, time was reversed, as if now

It was Venice a hundred or more years ago.

According to records at the time, 170,000 wooden piles were used to build the foundation of this church. During the construction, Baldassare Longner encountered many problems such as foundation collapse and wall support. In order to solve the problem of stability,

Problem, the architect also specially invented the strange spiral shape to support the dome.

She looked at this white building. What looked strange to her?

"Do you want to take a picture with her?" Monica asked.

"Did you see I brought a camera?" Pomona complained, forgetting it when she left in the morning.

"It's okay, I'll take pictures for you next time I come here." Monica said casually, pulling her long black wavy hair, "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"

She wasn't sure if Severus would take Monica with him to visit Venice.

"Have you been to Torcello Island? There is Attila's throne there and the Devil's Bridge."

Pomona looked at this black-haired Muggle girl. She liked dark and evil things better than herself, a witch.

"There is a Michelin restaurant on that island. It's incredible, isn't it? It's almost a desert island." Alessandro said, "If you want to go there, you have to make a reservation in advance."

"What?" she said in disbelief.

"Most of the tourists who go to Cerro Island go there for the mosaics in the main church of Torcello. I just want to know if there is really a devil waiting there at Devil's Bridge." Monica said, "Back then, Austria

During the occupation of Venice by the army, a girl on the island fell in love with an officer of the occupying army. This naturally aroused opposition from the girl's parents. During the conflict against the marriage, the girl's side actually gave the boy to him.

Killed, the panicked girl had to find a witch to help tide over the difficulties. So the devil appeared at the witch's request, but the condition was that the witch must exchange seven new lives for the young man's life. The devil first fulfilled

According to the contract, on a moonless night, the girl came to the river as promised. The devil recalled the boy from the underworld and built a small bridge for them to embrace and meet. As a result, they both flew away. When it was the witch's turn to fulfill her promise, at this time

There was no one on the island, so the witch had to offer an extra week of grace. However, the witch passed away during this grace period, so the young parents on the island kept their newborn children. The only disappointment was that the fulfillment

The devil made the contract. But there is still a saying that on every moonless night, the devil will still appear under the bridge and wait for the witch to fulfill her promise."

"Aren't you afraid that the devil will find me to fulfill the contract?"

"I said, I want to confirm whether there is a devil."

"Merlin's beard, I won't risk it just to satisfy your curiosity!"

"So you're not going?" Alessandro asked.

"I want to ask." She said without courage.

"Oh~~" the two Venetians suddenly realized.

"It doesn't matter. I'm in Piazza San Marco. If I'm not here, you can go to the Café de Flore to find my mother. She will call me."

"My boat is waiting at any time." Alejandro said, "But I will return to the main island at night. It is best not to spend the night on that island."

Monica despised Alessandro, and the two quarreled again in Italian.

Compared with the world-famous Church of Our Lady of Hundred Flowers, the Church of Our Lady of Ankang is not a famous Renaissance attraction, and there is no admission fee here. It seems to be just an ordinary church.

Today is not a health day. They cannot enter through the gorgeous main entrance, but can only enter through an inconspicuous small door. The first thing that catches their eyes is the main hall with a dome.

To be precise, it is a regular octagon, with 8 columns forming a spacious cylindrical space. The floor is paved with marble with beautiful geometric patterns, and is surrounded by a circle of 6 worship rooms.

The setting sun poured in through the window, creating a strange light and shadow effect. There was a man wearing a gorgeous embroidered coat standing in the center of the marble floor.

He turned his back to them, facing the group of statues of Maria. His clothes should have been formal clothes a few centuries ago, but now they are worn by carnival people. It was only at this time that Pomona realized that her clothes were inappropriate.

, and quickly took off his mask.

The man who was admiring the church with his back turned to them seemed to have noticed something and suddenly turned his head to look at them.

He was not wearing a mask, showing a very handsome Italian face. He was not tall, but very sunny. He was about thirty years old, with black hair and a pair of blue and white eyes, which looked a bit strange.

"Good evening." He said in broken English.

"Good evening." Pomona looked at this weirdo. Are all Italians so enthusiastic?

"Enjoy this beauty, because we don't have much time." The man looked up at the octagonal ceiling again, "This ship is sinking."

"Ship?" Alessandro asked curiously, "Where is the boat here?"

"Idiot," Monica said. "He's saying that Venice is sinking. The tip of the island looks like the prow of a ship."

But Pomona didn't think that was what he was talking about.

She followed his line of sight. Like all churches, this church also had ceiling paintings. What he saw was a scene from the Bible story. Abraham was about to kill his son, but was stopped by an angel.

Sometimes, God may not always be able to settle disputes, such as Cain killing Abel, which is also painted on the roof of the shed.

There was no choir in the church, only priests in cassocks gave explanations to the believers, but she felt like she heard the devil's vibrato.

She has a cursed violin with the souls of six Muggles trapped inside it. By putting it here, can they be saved and liberated?

She looked at the ugly woman being chased by angels next to the statue of the Virgin. She seemed to be a symbol of the plague.

You deserve to die if you're ugly, so it's very practical that your mother blessed you with a face as beautiful as your father's, don't you think? Tom?
Chapter completed!