The church obviously did not expect that the angels they summoned would be directly repelled.
Originally, the pope and cardinals also formulated a series of plans on how to use the coming of angels to revive the prestige of the church and regain secular power.
In their view, as long as there are real angels, and with the church's power and influence in Europe for thousands of years, no one dares to really fight against angels and God.
But they did not expect that the angel they had just summoned would be completely wiped out before they could show their power for the church.
Not only the nuns possessed by angels, but also the angels they summoned themselves were completely killed.
"This is impossible! How dare they...! How dare they attack angels! This is blasphemy! They are devils!" The Pope stood in front of St. Peter's Basilica and looked at the angels who were killed outside the city in the distance.
I was confused, even a little sluggish, feeling that my faith collapsed.
He really couldn't imagine why someone would dare to kill an angel.
Shouldn't they kneel down and beg God's forgiveness the moment they see the angel, repent of their disrespect for God's servants, bow to themselves as the universal Patriarch, and be at his disposal?
Why do they dare to attack the messenger of God? Aren’t they afraid of God’s divine punishment? Aren’t they afraid that they will not be able to go to heaven after death?
Seeing the gods you believe in being killed in front of you is a shock that is enough to make even the most devout believer lose his faith and go completely crazy.
But perhaps thankfully, the current pope is not a devout believer in God.
Although he is a pope and theoretically should be the most devout believer in the world, it is obvious that over the past millennium, successive popes have not been devout believers. Instead, they pursue power and secular rights more than faith.
Otherwise, they would not collect tithes, sell indulgences, and make going to heaven a business.
At this moment, the reason why the pope felt that his faith collapsed and he felt in disbelief was because he did not believe that someone would dare to swing a sword at an angel, let alone that an angel would be killed.
Of course, the most important thing is that he does not believe that his plan to revitalize the church, restore the Papal State, and become a saint and the greatest pope in history has failed before it even started.
The destruction of ambition was the root cause of his collapse at the moment.
The cardinals around the pope are basically of the same moral character as him. After all, how many of those who can achieve the position of cardinal are just purely religious and pious? The future of faith is not very good.
On the contrary, the grassroots clergy and many believers have more pious beliefs, and they have been hit harder.
Many of them rushed out of the city like crazy because they couldn't believe the facts and charged towards the Anglo-Egyptian coalition positions, but most of them rose to heaven amidst the artillery fire of Littorio and the Egyptian army.
As for high-level officials like the pope and cardinals, they were more greedy for life and did not take any action. It was not until the Egyptian army began to enter the city of Rome that they recovered and took action again.
Of course the pope and cardinals are not willing to fail, but now they have no way to perform another ceremony to summon angels to descend.
Summoning angels to come is not just a matter of making a phone call to heaven and asking angels to come to earth. The whole process must involve the pious prayers of a large number of believers and part of the essence of angels as a medium to truly summon angels to come.
The essence of angels was originally the most important secret treasure and holy relic of the church in the deepest part of the holy vault, and it was also the trump card used by the church to turn the tables at critical moments.
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After all, you only need to hold a grand prayer ceremony at a critical moment to summon an angel to come through the essence of the angel. This is undoubtedly the best way for the church to make a comeback.
Miracles, combat power, and the appearance of angels are enough to set off a one-sided trend among devout believers and overthrow any emperor.
This is also a secret method that has been preserved since the founding of the Church. It has almost never been used in history. Even when Napoleon humiliated the Pope during his coronation, the Pope never considered summoning an angel to consecrate Napoleon.
Open your eyes.
However, now, in the church's thousand-year history, the only time he summoned an angel to come was that he was killed by a heretic. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to the church.
Not to mention the loss of the holy objects themselves, the collapse of the faith of a large number of devout believers is enough to shake the foundation of the church.
But at the moment, the church really has no means to turn things over, and the only option is to surrender to the Anglo-Egyptian forces.
After all, the Anglo-Egyptian forces have not expressed any intention of exterminating the church. As long as the church surrenders, is willing to assist the Anglo-Egyptian forces in controlling Italy, and at the same time uses the influence of the church to assist the coalition forces in their fight against Germany, the church's status can still be preserved.
But in this case, the cardinals and the pope himself may have to be replaced again, and this pope will also be nailed to the pillar of shame in history and become the eternal sinner of the church.
The Pope certainly didn't want this to be the end of himself. He was struggling in a meeting with the cardinals, trying to persuade them to make a last-ditch effort with him.
But it is clear that the cardinals do not intend to make a desperate move.
After all, they are all cardinals with high authority and distinguished status. They have survived from the lowest monks to their current status. They have not enjoyed enough power in the world, and they do not want to serve God and him like this.
So all of a sudden, what was the noble Pope's crown just yesterday has now become a bereaved dog that has been betrayed by all its relatives.
But the Pope is obviously not willing to call it a day, and he still has a last-ditch trump card.
Watching the cardinals leave the papal hall, the pope took off his gorgeous and heavy robes, threw away the scepter representing the papal power, and took off the heavy crown on his head, just like an ordinary monk.
Stumbling towards the secret room of the Pope's Hall.
As an organization that has ruled Europe for thousands of years, the church certainly cannot rule Europe solely by relying on secular power.
In the course of thousands of years of rule, it is obvious that there were no existences on the European continent that could challenge the status of the church.
Of course, in the era when the church was at its peak, most of those who challenged the church's status were killed at that time. Even if they could not be killed immediately, they would seal it after being defeated. Usually the church would build a church on the seal as a symbol.
repression.
But there are also some beings that are too powerful to be sealed, and they will be sent to Rome, where the church will personally suppress them with the most powerful force.
These suppressed "evil beings" are located underground in St. Peter's Basilica where the church is located, and there is a secret passage in the Pope's Hall that leads directly to the seal.
This is a secret that has been passed down orally by popes throughout the ages. Apart from the pope, only a very small number of church members know this secret. Not all cardinals know this secret.
This pope only learned this secret when he followed the previous pope to inspect the sealing place.
Of course he would not have had the idea of this sealed place originally, but when people are in desperate situations, they often do some irrational behaviors.
In order to make a comeback, the pope obviously doesn't mind releasing those "evil beings" that have been suppressed by the church for hundreds of thousands of years.
