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Chapter 390 Maria, what is your relationship with the Virgin Mary? (Subscription, votes)

"Hey, are you sent by Heavenly Father to see the Heavenly King?"

Archbishop Doria and Sister Maria, along with several Chinese followers, had just walked towards the "Yue Fa" ship. Before they left the dock, they were stopped by several female Taiping soldiers in red scarves and yellow robes. The leader was a woman in her thirties who stopped the Cardinal and Sister Maria and asked them directly.

Archbishop Doria was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, "I was sent to China by His Majesty the Patriarch of the Catholic Church, who is God's representative on earth, and the Patriarch's order must reflect God's will!"

So the cardinal made the sign of the cross on his chest and nodded: "Yes, I was sent by the Heavenly Father!"

When the female official heard this, she immediately grinned and said, "Ah, we've finally got you! The Heavenly Father told the Heavenly King in a dream half a month ago that he would send someone over, and the Heavenly King has been asking us to welcome you every day, and today we finally got you."

What? You knew we were coming half a month ago?

Archbishop Doria and Sister Maria were both terrified. Could it be that Hong Xiuquan was really not a big liar?
Maria whispered, "Sister, did your Heavenly King tell us what the Heavenly Father sent us to do?"

The female official looked around carefully and saw that there were many people around, so she leaned close to Maria's ear and whispered, "Deal with a fallen angel!"

Ah!
Sister Maria was completely stunned.

Even this is known! There is really a connection between the Heavenly King and God! Who is this Hong Xiuquan? Could he really be God's
Archbishop Doria saw Maria's face change drastically and knew something was wrong, so he asked in Latin: "Maria, what did she say?"

"This Chinese sister said that God told their Heavenly King that we were sent by God to help him fight the devil!"

Maria also answered in Latin.

"What? This, how is this possible?" Archbishop Doria hurriedly made the sign of the cross on his chest again, with a pious look on his face - he had never been so pious in his life!

Although he was a cardinal qualified to elect the Pope and become the Pope, deep down he had deep doubts about the existence of God.

There was no way out. He lived in an era when the Catholic faith was collapsing, and happened to grow up in Italy, which had been in a state of disintegration for a long time and where Catholicism was declining. He was also a core member of the Doria family, the ruling family of Genoa, who was familiar with the inside story of the Vatican.

Although he became a clergyman serving God because of his family's arrangement, and rose rapidly to become a cardinal, and also presided over the heresy investigation in the church for several years, he actually never served God sincerely. He was corrupt, accepted bribes, sold the holy office, told lies, kept several mistresses, and had seven or eight illegitimate children.

Maria, who came to China with him this time, was nominally his distant niece, but in fact she was his illegitimate daughter.

In addition, although he became the chief exorcist of the Holy See more than ten years ago, he has never expelled even a real devil from the world.

not a single one!

Although he did not have the ability to expel demons from the world, he not only had the ability to use demons to cheat money from the wealthy and powerful Europeans who had done too many evil things, but also a great ability.

After all, he is an exorcist certified by the Vatican. With the endorsement of the Vatican, he is more reliable than those unconventional exorcists, right? And the Doria family is already in the circle of powerful people in Europe.

Before he was shocked by the incident of "The Book of Prophets", he was basically an atheist - a clergyman who did so many blasphemous things against God, if he was not a staunch atheist, wouldn't he have to worry about going to hell every day?

But now it seems that God is real!
He has done so many bad things that blasphemed God, and he is probably doomed to go to hell.

When Archbishop Doria thought of what he had done in the past, he seemed to see the gates of hell open for him.

"Uncle, uncle, what are you thinking about?"

When Maria's call rang in Archbishop Doria's ears, he realized that he had been distracted and a two-wheeled carriage had stopped in front of him.

"Uncle, get in the car." Maria pointed to the female official who was welcoming them. "This sister Meng will take us directly to the Golden Dragon City where the Heavenly King lives. His Majesty the Heavenly King is waiting for us there."

"Oh, the king is waiting for us. Why?" Archbishop Doria asked a little guiltily.

"Of course it's exorcism!" Maria took a breath, her pretty face full of anticipation, "This is the mission God has given us!"

"King of Heaven, King of Heaven, they are coming, they are coming!" In the Sun Palace, Golden Dragon City, a sage was sitting in the yard enjoying the cool air and was a little drowsy. He was probably going to see God in his dream again, when suddenly he heard a shout of surprise in his ears.

Hong Xiuquan was suddenly awakened and subconsciously shouted, "Who? Who's here?"

Could it be those “living dads” coming?

"Heavenly King, the people sent by Heavenly Father are here!"

Daozi ran to Hong Xiuquan in small steps, knelt down and reported the good news to him.

"Really, he's really coming?" Hong Xiuquan was also a little surprised.

Although he firmly believed that he was the son of Heavenly Father, he also believed that he was being targeted by his Heavenly Brother Ji Du.

After all, Ji Du is the crown prince in heaven!

Heavenly Father should still support Ji Du more, otherwise he would not have been banished to the lower world to be this unlucky king of heaven, and be bullied by the angels sent by Ji Du.

"Really, they have already arrived at Golden Dragon City." Daozi urged with a pious look on his face, "Please ask the Heavenly King to change his clothes quickly and go up to the palace to receive the envoy!"

But Hong Xiuquan still didn't dare to believe it. He first pinched his beard with his right hand and then pulled it hard! Ouch, it hurts!
This is not a dream.

Then Hong Xiuquan stared and asked in a low voice: "Who is coming? How do you know that it was sent by Heavenly Father?"

Daozi replied: "Reporting to the Heavenly King, there are two foreigners, a man and a woman. The man is a cardinal named Paul, who is the Archbishop of Nanjing Diocese sent by the Roman Catholic Church to China."

"Oh, he is here to take over from Zhao Fangji." Hong Xiuquan was a little disappointed.

But what Daozi said next made Hong Xiu overjoyed: "That woman is a nun named Maria. She is an exorcist of the Roman Church. She came here specifically to exorcise the demon that descended from the sky in Suoyiferry!"

"What? Maria." Hong Xiuquan took a few deep breaths. "The Virgin Mary? She came down in person? Quick, help me change my clothes. I want to go and welcome the Virgin Mary!"

The Virgin Mary is here. Not to mention the "four living fathers", even if Ji Du comes in person, he has to respectfully wish the Virgin Mary well!

However, Daozi was not sure that the Maria was the Virgin Mary. She knew that foreigners did not have taboos, and there were many women named Maria. It would be bad if she made a mistake. So she helped Hong Xiuquan walk into the hall, and whispered to him, "Heavenly King, there are many foreign women named Maria, and they don't have taboos."

"I know. I won't worship Mary blindly when I see her." Hong Xiuquan's steps were light and his voice was cheerful. "But even if she is not the Virgin Mary herself, she must be related to the Virgin Mary."

Daozi thought about it and felt that it made sense. Maria's arrival was such a coincidence. She came just after the Heavenly Father had given the King a dream. Moreover, she came to drive out the demon Luo Yaoguo!

If she had nothing to do with Maria, how could it be such a coincidence?
Maybe she is the incarnation of the Virgin Mary in the underworld!

The main hall of the Sun Palace.

Paul de Doria and Maria had been waiting for a while in this somewhat empty hall filled with oriental mysticism.

Before coming to Tianjing, they had asked people in the Bishop's residence in Dongjiadu about the etiquette of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and knew that kowtow was popular there. Since they came to Tianjing for the devil and the Book of the Prophets, they were obviously asking for help from the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, so they naturally couldn't be as arrogant as Wen Xian and refuse to kneel.

So when they heard "Heavenly King has arrived", they bent their knees and kowtowed three times and nine times. But before their heads hit the ground, a male voice with a Hakka accent rang out: "Paul, Maria, stand up, stand up quickly, you are sent by Heavenly Father, God, you don't have to kneel in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

Paul and Maria quickly stood up and looked up. They saw a man in a golden crown and yellow robe, accompanied by a dozen female officials, walking briskly into the hall. He did not go directly to the throne, but came directly to Paul and Maria. He ignored the cardinal and said to Maria with a smile, "Is this nun Maria?"

"That's right." Maria replied quickly, and squatted down to greet him.

Hong Xiuquan smiled and asked again: "What is your relationship with the Holy Mother in heaven?"

(End of this chapter)