Letter to the Typical Medieval Pope

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Gauri Gopakumar

Grade 10 World History

Mr. Wade

21st September 2011

Letter to the Typical Medieval Pope

Dear Holiness,

As being your and the Saviour’s faithful servant for several years- I, Henry de Silva, have been bestowed upon the honour of making the annual pilgrimage across the lands to see if His duties and Your Holiness’s faith and law of our everlasting Christian church is not under peril. Over the span of the several moons of my journey, I have kept a diary of my peculiar yet in some events, pleasing, travels and observations of the common peoples and their common understanding of God’s words. I have been able to find out several mental and miraculous cases around the lands.

To begin with, it was said (as I have not had made it in time to witness this incredible feat) that Christ was seen in the hands of a (now dead) aged priest by the name of Henry. It was said that Henry, may God grant him eternal life, always lived his life in an honourably as a holy and just man. One day he read the mass at the altar of St. John the Baptist and one of the lay-brethren saw the Most High in a man’s form appear in the priest’s hands. The priest himself did not see this and was told to me by one of the elders in the convent I stayed with for a moon.

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The following story which I read was on a maiden scattering the Host’s body over her vegetable garden! How utterly crude and devious that maiden ought to be. But the devil has entered her body ever since that unfortunate event. It is likely that the forces that are not in our hands are also looking over and controlling the common peoples. The girl even said:  ‘I! Who cared more for my garden than for the sacrament!’ The devil is in her body now she suffers for the mistakes and irresponsible thinking behind the acts of her deeds. The monk that ...

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