Chapter 714 Holy grail
Venice is known as the Water City, also known as the Bridge City. According to travel magazines, the islands that make up Venice have about 400 bridges. Those narrow roads cannot be passed by cars. If you don’t want to take a boat, you can only walk and ride a motorcycle. There are two options out there.
It's not a motorcycle, it's just the kind of small electric bike that young people ride through the streets and alleys, which is very annoying.
The center of Venice, that is, the old city, has no motor vehicle lanes. Its main function is tourism, and the vast majority of locals live in the suburbs.
In addition to the many thieves and low police efficiency in Italy, everything is good. Those bikers dare to snatch bags in the old city because the Venice police can only walk when patrolling.
Oh, how can you come to the hometown of the mafia if you have come to Italy once and have not encountered robbery.
The river in the old city is very narrow, and the long and narrow gondola can't turn around at all. Basically, only two boats can pass by. It is basically impossible to chase criminals on a motorboat. The purpose of the police is basically to give tourists Guiding the way, or resolving consumer disputes, you can see them patrolling in motorboats in such a spacious channel as the Grand Canal.
Single women must be careful when traveling abroad, but she is a witch, and there are birds, snakes and cockroaches as bodyguards, so she doesn't have to worry about personal safety for the time being.
St. Mark's Square is known as "the heart of Venice" and "the most elegant living room in Europe". Many roads in the old city lead to it. Venice holds grand festivals, political activities, and religious festivals there. In the past, the Crusades The spoils of the conquest are on display in St. Mark's Church.
St. Mark's Basilica on St. Mark's Square is named after the remains of St. Mark, the disciple of Jesus, and the square is named after the church. The St. Mark's Library is because the architect was named Mark, and the library was built Shisan Sorvino adopts the same double-layer arcade structure as the main mansion, but it is slightly lower in height. This long arcade with classical columns is simple and distant, and now it has become an open-air cafe, but because of the flooding, there are not many customers.
The doves of peace were also gone. Fortunately, the water was not deep, and we could pass through wearing waterproof rain boots. Yes, the sun was out, but it had nothing to do with the tide.
Pomona found a feature. There are many benches in Hyde Park for people to rest. In Venice, you can just find a place to sit and rest. On the steps of St. Mark’s Church, there are many people sitting on the steps to rest. It reminded her of people in the Middle Ages. There were many people waiting at the door of the church with nothing to do, waiting for relief. They only needed to kiss the cross in exchange for bread.
Cain worked so hard to grow food, why did God still love Abel’s sacrifice? When shepherding the sheep, I was basically in a daze. It was not as hard as farming.
Cain, who offered so hard-earned food to the god, was not favored by him, and committed the first murder out of jealousy.
Mark is the author of the "Gospel of Mark" in the Bible. According to legend, in 828, two Venetian merchants smuggled the relics of Jesus and Saint Mark to Venice from Alexandria, Egypt. Since then, St. Mark has been the patron saint of Venice and is no longer a business and Hermes, the god of deceit.
St. Mark's Basilica adopts the Byzantine architectural style, and the interior is decorated with many Byzantine-style mosaics. After all, the Republic of Venice at that time was once a subsidiary of the Byzantine Empire.
Most biblical scholars generally agree that the Gospel of Mark was written the earliest, while the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were rewritten with reference to the Gospel of Mark and added other data.
Mark’s cousin is Barnabas. Barnabas donated his family property after he became a Christian, and then devoted himself to the work of the gospel. He took Mark to Antioch, and then took him to Asia Minor to conduct preaching tours, but soon after Mark returned to Jerusalem for some reason, which made the accompanying Paul quite dissatisfied. After the Jerusalem meeting, Barnabas went He took Mark to Cyprus to preach, and the records about Mark disappeared temporarily.
It is precisely because of this that there are different legends about the place where Marco wrote the book. Some say it was in Rome, and some say it was in Alexandria, Egypt. That is to say, the Venetian merchants moved to the remains of the saint in 828 may be false.
Falsification of holy objects is not uncommon, and the shroud of Turin is one of them. It is said that after Jesus was crucified on the cross and before his resurrection, the body was wrapped and buried in it. It's not the only holy relic claiming so, there are about 40 shrouds around the world that claim to have had close contact with Jesus' body.
As for the last supper, the holy grail used by Jesus was even more miraculous. Galahad, one of the knights of the round table, used the magical power of the holy grail to heal the dying king.
The Holy Grail mysteriously disappeared shortly after it was brought into Britain. Pomona was not crazy enough to think that Hufflepuff's golden chalice, which was used by Voldemort to make Horcruxes, was the legendary missing Holy Grail.
It's just that, it's too crazy to imagine, and she prefers another, slightly more rational story.
A long time ago, the ancient Greek Pythagoras believed that the earth is spherical because the moon is also round, and the circle represents an aesthetic.
Later, someone measured the meridian. Although it was not very accurate, it at least proved that the earth is spherical.
Then after more than a thousand years, Magellan proved that the earth is round rather than flat by traveling around the world. At that time, navigators did not have the tool of telescope. Because of the limitation of vision, human beings could not observe the distant sea surface and identify nearby ships. , easy to run aground on rocks or encounter pirates, until decades after Magellan's death, Galileo invented the telescope to observe the moon.
The place where Galileo invented the telescope was in Venice. Venetian glassmakers at that time had been trying to make transparent glass free of bubbles and impurities, but failed many times.
Those stained glass are used by churches to make rose windows, which is one of the symbols of Gothic architecture, such as Notre Dame de Paris.
Venice is located on the main road of east-west trade, and it can satisfy any ore material it wants. Later, people discovered a little secret, that is, they no longer use mineral salt, but plant salt. There is a succulent called salicornia Plants are particularly salt-tolerant. They can be planted in saline-alkali land near the sea. Unlike ordinary plants, they absorb a lot of salt and store it in the body without absorbing other substances. There is also a lot of oil in the seeds. People collected it. After it was burned to ashes, and the extracted salt was used to make glass, it lowered the melting point of silicon, and then a revolution occurred, and human beings can produce glass that is completely transparent and free of impurities, and it is precisely because of this glass that Galileo made telescopes.
Known locally as St. Peter's grass, this humble plant not only brought humans closer to the stars, but also revolutionized navigation.
Sometimes, you don't need to go to the local library to know some secrets that the locals don't know.
Pomona is a gardening enthusiast, she is not good at taking care of magical animals, plants are her specialty.
In the other two Gospels, St. Peter is not mentioned. Peter is the head of the twelve disciples and the first disciple chosen by Jesus. Before being arrested, Jesus predicted that Peter would refuse to recognize him three times in a row before the rooster crowed. he. As a result, he refused to admit his relationship with Jesus three times because he was afraid when Jesus was interrogated. For this, Peter has always regretted it. So later when he was martyred in Rome, he asked the executioner to hang himself upside down on the cross because he felt unworthy of Jesus.
Some people who believe in Satan made a mistake. The five-pointed star is the symbol of Venus, the god of love, the inverted cross is the symbol of St. Paul, and Saint Peter is the first Pope of Catholicism. Therefore, the inverted cross is also called "Pope's Cross". Put a symbol of the Vatican Pope on the altar dedicated to Satan...
The Vatican has St. Peter's Square, which was built after the Renaissance and is mainly Baroque, but St. Mark's Basilica is not.
A witch went to the Vatican... she was really afraid that she would be set ablaze by the Holy Light.
"Hi, tourist, do you need a tour guide?" An Italian girl with long black wavy hair suddenly greeted her in English.
This kind of tour guide who comes to the door by himself usually has problems, so be careful to be kidnapped by her to that place.
"Yes!" Pomona held out her hand to the enthusiastic girl. "Nice to meet you."
"My name is Monica, are you alone?" Monica shook her hand.
"No, I'm on my honeymoon. I'm playing a game with my husband. I leave him clues, and he uses them to find me."
"It sounds interesting." Monica said with interest, "What clues are you going to give him?"
"It depends on where I go next."
"What if he can't find you?"
"Then he can swim alone in Venice," said Pomona coldly.
"Aren't you going back to where you live at night?"
"I can go to the place you introduced." Pomona said with an ambiguous smile, "You can get a lot of commission."
"100 Euros a day." Monica said bluntly, "I only play with you, not sleep with you."
"I guess I'm straight," said Pomona dryly.
"I know, but someone likes a threesome..."
"Enough!" Pomona interrupted the Muggle girl old enough for her daughter.
Merlin's beard, how open are Muggles these days?
