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Mysteries of an ancient church

from HDK 69 † The Grim Abbot by PAFUND

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t the Stenfeld Church, you meet Germinius, the current parson: he is a stocky and red-faced priest, with an intense gaze and a shrill voice. When you ask him about the legend of the grim abbot, Germinius minimizes: “The annals of a century ago contain a lot of inaccuracies and unfounded popular beliefs! Those were dark times and fear produced some of the most abstruse stories... You can't believe in all these weird things! It is true that the abbot was probably interested in issues that were not strictly Orthodox and that he had a dark and eccentric character, but in the ecclesiastical registers there are no measures against him and indeed his management of the monastery was positive: he restored the windows of the church and he had the well dug in the back of the church, today unfortunately dry”. Regarding the desecration of the cemetery, Germimius says "it is much more likely that they were the work of unscrupulous bandits who ravaged the region in those turbulent centuries".
While the parish priest babbles, you notice the famous stained glass windows dating back to the time of Abbot Smotelius. There are depicted three fathers of the paleo-Christian cult in tattered robes: IOB has one finger raised upwards, IOANNIS two fingers raised and ZACHARIAS three. Zacharisas holds in his other hand an unrolled parchment with the inscription in gothic characters: "Follow the orbits". The three figures rest on a completely opaque black glass plate. "What is the meaning of that message and that finger position? You ask the parson. He shrugs: "Bah... who knows!".

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from HDK 69 † The Grim Abbot, released October 31, 2020

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