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The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian Church, so although it looks much larger than the Catholic Church in St. Fernando, the interior decoration of this church is much simpler than that Catholic Church.
After all, because of the difference in doctrine, there are great differences in interior decoration between Catholic Church and Christian Church.
But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, belong to Christianity. Only in China, Protestantism is called "Christianity" because of translation. In fact, the correct name of Catholicism should be "Roman public church". As for another of the three major schools of Christianity, it is the Eastern Orthodox church.
In fact, we can tell the difference between Roman public church and Protestant church from the interior decoration of the church. Most of the interior decoration of the Roman public church, that is, the Catholic Church, is magnificent. There are colored paintings everywhere, whether it's walls, glass or dome.
In contrast, the interior decoration of Protestant churches is much simpler. It is said that this is because they are worried that believers will be distracted by the gorgeous decoration inside the church and cannot wholeheartedly believe in Christ Jesus, so they will make the interior decoration of the church very simple.
In addition, the head of a Catholic Church is usually called a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is usually called a priest.
However, the two churches also have something in common, that is, there is a tomb about the church.
Whether Catholic or Protestant, the relationship between church and tomb generally has three kinds. The first relationship is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the tomb is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the church floor.
The first kind of tomb, most of which are buried by ordinary believers; In the second kind of tomb, most of the people buried are important figures in some believers; As for the third kind, that is, the one that puts the coffin directly on the church floor, it is a very important figure who has made great contributions to the church, and it is possible to enjoy this high honor after death.
Of course, not all churches have catacombs. Some churches built very early could not build underground tombs under the church because of the limitations of construction technology or local conditions at that time. This is the case with the Catholic Church in San Fernando, for example.
The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral was built for only a century, and the construction technology has long been no problem. Therefore, there is a large and deep underground tomb under the church, with three floors and nearly ten meters deep.
Even Yang Jing was a little surprised by the grandeur of the cathedral after entering the basement of the cathedral. You know, this church was built around 1900. It was able to build such a huge three-story basement more than 100 years ago. Moreover, the Philippines is still an earthquake prone country. It has been a miracle that this church can still be kept intact for more than 100 years.
Chris completed his task perfectly. In fact, it's easy to complete such a task. No matter what reason, it can't compare with the promised large amount of money.
Chris just told his idea to the archpriest here, and then promised that if the church allowed his predecessors' ashes to be buried in the basement, he would donate $300000 to the church, but he needed to go down and have a look at the basement first.
Money can make the mill push the ghost. Although $300000 has not been obtained, even the promised $300000 immediately asked the great priest to allow Chris to take two people down to see the basement.
This is $300000, almost half of the annual donation of this church! How can such a big financier easily offend? Don't you just go down and have a look? What's there? There are all coffins below. What's so gloomy?
So the great priest sent a man to lead Chris, the great financier, into the basement. Of course, Yang Jing followed Chris as an attendant this time.
There is still a big gap between the thinking of westerners and Oriental people. For example, they have very different views on cemeteries.
In the thinking of Oriental people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery is, the better. Yin and yang are different. The living can't be too close to the dead, otherwise something big will happen.
In the eyes of Westerners, cemeteries are sacred places. Most Westerners build houses near cemeteries to get the protection of their ancestors. In the church, the tomb is built directly under the church floor.
Although Yang Jing didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in China. He heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods. If he didn't believe in gods, he suddenly entered this gloomy underground tomb and couldn't help but stand a little sweaty.
The basement is a masonry structure. Arches are formed between thick masonry columns. These dense arches bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the buildings above. The four walls of the basement are also masonry walls instead of cement polished walls imagined by Yang Jing.
This makes Yang Jing feel very strange. The cathedral itself is located by the river. It is said that the groundwater level should be very high. If the basement is built in this place, if waterproof treatment is not done well, the basement would have been submerged by the emerging groundwater.
But nothing happened here. Even in the third basement, which is more than ten meters deep, I didn't see any water stains in the basement except that I felt very wet and cold.
"Is there waterproof measures inside the wall?" Yang Jing thought, then shook her head and cut off the idea of thinking from this aspect. He is not an architectural expert, and he is not here to study the basement structure of the church. He is looking for treasure. If you don't understand these messy things, you can't understand them.
Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is full of shelves made of dense brick and stone buildings. On these brick and stone shelves, sarcophagus are placed one by one. The coffin cover of each sarcophagus is engraved with a person's shape. Yang Jing knows that this human shape carving is actually the posture before life in the coffin.
The cathedral covers a large area, so the area of the catacombs is not small. It is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagus on each floor.
So many sarcophagus are densely placed together. With the cold and humid air here, there is really a chilling rush
If it were normal, Yang Jing would not have come to such a place when he was full. However, he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped focusing on these sarcophagus and walked towards the position where Baoguang appeared.
The priest who came down with him went back on the second floor on the pretext of something. It seems that even the priest of the church is unwilling to come to such a place, and it is estimated that the priest is well aware of the following situation. There is nothing to look at except the sarcophagus, which means he doesn't have to follow these three people, I'm not worried about what trouble these three people can cause below.
The priest didn't follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's action. Therefore, after arriving at the third floor, he just delayed a little and went to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because that piece of treasure light came out of this position.
The church has existed for more than 100 years, so the sarcophagus in the basement is already full, even in the northeast corner of the third floor.
But here, Yang Jing can clearly see the position of Baoguang. To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not put in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but in the wall!
Obviously, after the little devils occupied lavag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for the little devils. However, after the little devils surrendered, the treasures that had no time to take away were hidden by the little devils in the basement of the cathedral.
However, in order to prevent these treasures from being found by others, the little devil did not put the treasures in the sarcophagus, but chiseled the basement wall in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, dug out an additional basement, put the treasures in, and sealed the basement wall from the outside.
In this way, there is a sarcophagus outside and a wall as a cover. It is estimated that no one would expect that there are still a large number of treasures hidden in this position!
If Yang Jing didn't have heavenly eye skills and found those slightly leaked treasure lights, otherwise he wouldn't think there would be treasures in such a place!
I can only say that the little devils are cunning!
Obviously, those little devils knew that even if they were defeated, Americans would not have any doubt about this ancient church after they took over the Philippines again. Because of their faith, those Americans have no time to protect these churches. How can they destroy these churches? Therefore, it is the safest to hide the treasure under the home church.
It is estimated that there are not a few little devils with this idea. Otherwise, a large number of treasures would not be buried under the Catholic Church in San Fernando.
The treasures hidden under the two churches were not found by the Americans. Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of the two hiding places has not been leaked. Yang Jing is even sure that the defeated little devils will not tell about this hiding place. After all, this place hides a large number of treasures, which are likely to be collected from several places.
This kind of hiding place is estimated to know very little even for the senior figures of the little devils.
I just don't know how Alfred got such accurate information that he even marked the coordinates and locations.
Unfortunately, Alfred, the head of the three heroes of ZTE in the DuPont family, spent a lot of effort to find these eight hidden places. He didn't have time to dig them, but they were all cheap to Yang Jing in the end.
"There are a lot of treasures buried in the underground of two churches in the eight places. Does that mean that the little devils buried more than these two churches? Maybe there are also a lot of treasures buried in the underground of some churches in big cities such as Manila, batayan, Davao and Cebu? Well, this possibility is actually very big. Do you want to wait for a chance in the future Go and have a look at the churches in those big cities? "
Yang Jing touched her chin and thought, and the corners of her mouth tilted up slightly
PS: bow to thank the reward of "first kiss to hand" 500, "very lazy fish" and "little fish 62" 100.
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The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian Church, so although it looks much larger than the Catholic Church in St. Fernando, the interior decoration of this church is much simpler than that Catholic Church.
After all, because of the difference in doctrine, there are great differences in interior decoration between Catholic Church and Christian Church.
But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, belong to Christianity. Only in China, Protestantism is called "Christianity" because of translation. In fact, the correct name of Catholicism should be "Roman public church". As for another of the three major schools of Christianity, it is the Eastern Orthodox church.
In fact, we can tell the difference between Roman public church and Protestant church from the interior decoration of the church. Most of the interior decoration of the Roman public church, that is, the Catholic Church, is magnificent. There are colored paintings everywhere, whether it's walls, glass or dome.
In contrast, the interior decoration of Protestant churches is much simpler. It is said that this is because they are worried that believers will be distracted by the gorgeous decoration inside the church and cannot wholeheartedly believe in Christ Jesus, so they will make the interior decoration of the church very simple.
In addition, the head of a Catholic Church is usually called a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is usually called a priest.
However, the two churches also have something in common, that is, there is a tomb about the church.
Whether Catholic or Protestant, the relationship between church and tomb generally has three kinds. The first relationship is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the tomb is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the church floor.
The first kind of tomb, most of which are buried by ordinary believers; In the second kind of tomb, most of the people buried are important figures in some believers; As for the third kind, that is, the one that puts the coffin directly on the church floor, it is a very important figure who has made great contributions to the church, and it is possible to enjoy this high honor after death.
Of course, not all churches have catacombs. Some churches built very early could not build underground tombs under the church because of the limitations of construction technology or local conditions at that time. This is the case with the Catholic Church in San Fernando, for example.
The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral was built for only a century, and the construction technology has long been no problem. Therefore, there is a large and deep underground tomb under the church, with three floors and nearly ten meters deep.
Even Yang Jing was a little surprised by the grandeur of the cathedral after entering the basement of the cathedral. You know, this church was built around 1900. It was able to build such a huge three-story basement more than 100 years ago. Moreover, the Philippines is still an earthquake prone country. It has been a miracle that this church can still be kept intact for more than 100 years.
Chris completed his task perfectly. In fact, it's easy to complete such a task. No matter what reason, it can't compare with the promised large amount of money.
Chris just told his idea to the archpriest here, and then promised that if the church allowed his predecessors' ashes to be buried in the basement, he would donate $300000 to the church, but he needed to go down and have a look at the basement first.
Money can make the mill push the ghost. Although $300000 has not been obtained, even the promised $300000 immediately asked the great priest to allow Chris to take two people down to see the basement.
This is $300000, almost half of the annual donation of this church! How can such a big financier easily offend? Don't you just go down and have a look? What's there? There are all coffins below. What's so gloomy?
So the great priest sent a man to lead Chris, the great financier, into the basement. Of course, Yang Jing followed Chris as an attendant this time.
There is still a big gap between the thinking of westerners and Oriental people. For example, they have very different views on cemeteries.
In the thinking of Oriental people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery is, the better. Yin and yang are different. The living can't be too close to the dead, otherwise something big will happen.
In the eyes of Westerners, cemeteries are sacred places. Most Westerners build houses near cemeteries to get the protection of their ancestors. In the church, the tomb is built directly under the church floor.
Although Yang Jing didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in China. He heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods. If he didn't believe in gods, he suddenly entered this gloomy underground tomb and couldn't help but stand a little sweaty.
The basement is a masonry structure. Arches are formed between thick masonry columns. These dense arches bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the buildings above. The four walls of the basement are also masonry walls instead of cement polished walls imagined by Yang Jing.
This makes Yang Jing feel very strange. The cathedral itself is located by the river. It is said that the groundwater level should be very high. If the basement is built in this place, if waterproof treatment is not done well, the basement would have been submerged by the emerging groundwater.
But nothing happened here. Even in the third basement, which is more than ten meters deep, I didn't see any water stains in the basement except that I felt very wet and cold.
"Is there waterproof measures inside the wall?" Yang Jing thought, then shook her head and cut off the idea of thinking from this aspect. He is not an architectural expert, and he is not here to study the basement structure of the church. He is looking for treasure. If you don't understand these messy things, you can't understand them.
Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is full of shelves made of dense brick and stone buildings. On these brick and stone shelves, sarcophagus are placed one by one. The coffin cover of each sarcophagus is engraved with a person's shape. Yang Jing knows that this human shape carving is actually the posture before life in the coffin.
The cathedral covers a large area, so the area of the catacombs is not small. It is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagus on each floor.
So many sarcophagus are densely placed together. With the cold and humid air here, there is really a chilling rush
If it were normal, Yang Jing would not have come to such a place when he was full. However, he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped focusing on these sarcophagus and walked towards the position where Baoguang appeared.
The priest who came down with him went back on the second floor on the pretext of something. It seems that even the priest of the church is unwilling to come to such a place, and it is estimated that the priest is well aware of the following situation. There is nothing to look at except the sarcophagus, which means he doesn't have to follow these three people, I'm not worried about what trouble these three people can cause below.
The priest didn't follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's action. Therefore, after arriving at the third floor, he just delayed a little and went to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because that piece of treasure light came out of this position.
The church has existed for more than 100 years, so the sarcophagus in the basement is already full, even in the northeast corner of the third floor.
But here, Yang Jing can clearly see the position of Baoguang. To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not put in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but in the wall!
Obviously, after the little devils occupied lavag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for the little devils. However, after the little devils surrendered, the treasures that had no time to take away were hidden by the little devils in the basement of the cathedral.
However, in order to prevent these treasures from being found by others, the little devil did not put the treasures in the sarcophagus, but chiseled the basement wall in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, dug out an additional basement, put the treasures in, and sealed the basement wall from the outside.
In this way, there is a sarcophagus outside and a wall as a cover. It is estimated that no one would expect that there are still a large number of treasures hidden in this position!
If Yang Jing didn't have heavenly eye skills and found those slightly leaked treasure lights, otherwise he wouldn't think there would be treasures in such a place!
I can only say that the little devils are cunning!
Obviously, those little devils knew that even if they were defeated, Americans would not have any doubt about this ancient church after they took over the Philippines again. Because of their faith, those Americans have no time to protect these churches. How can they destroy these churches? Therefore, it is the safest to hide the treasure under the home church.
It is estimated that there are not a few little devils with this idea. Otherwise, a large number of treasures would not be buried under the Catholic Church in San Fernando.
The treasures hidden under the two churches were not found by the Americans. Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of the two hiding places has not been leaked. Yang Jing is even sure that the defeated little devils will not tell about this hiding place. After all, this place hides a large number of treasures, which are likely to be collected from several places.
This kind of hiding place is estimated to know very little even for the senior figures of the little devils.
I just don't know how Alfred got such accurate information that he even marked the coordinates and locations.
Unfortunately, Alfred, the head of the three heroes of ZTE in the DuPont family, spent a lot of effort to find these eight hidden places. He didn't have time to dig them, but they were all cheap to Yang Jing in the end.
"There are a lot of treasures buried in the underground of two churches in the eight places. Does that mean that the little devils buried more than these two churches? Maybe there are also a lot of treasures buried in the underground of some churches in big cities such as Manila, batayan, Davao and Cebu? Well, this possibility is actually very big. Do you want to wait for a chance in the future Go and have a look at the churches in those big cities? "
Yang Jing touched her chin and thought, and the corners of her mouth tilted up slightly
PS: bow to thank the reward of "first kiss to hand" 500, "very lazy fish" and "little fish 62" 100.
The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian Church, so although it looks much larger than the Catholic Church in St. Fernando, the interior decoration of this church is much simpler than that Catholic Church.After all, because of the difference in doctrine, there are great differences in interior decoration between Catholic Church and Christian Church.But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, belong to Christianity. Only in China, Protestantism is called "Christianity" because of translation. In fact, the correct name of Catholicism should be "Roman public church". As for another of the three major schools of Christianity, it is the Eastern Orthodox church.In fact, we can tell the difference between Roman public church and Protestant church from the interior decoration of the church. Most of the interior decoration of the Roman public church, that is, the Catholic Church, is magnificent. There are colored paintings everywhere, whether it's walls, glass or dome.In contrast, the interior decoration of Protestant churches is much simpler. It is said that this is because they are worried that believers will be distracted by the gorgeous decoration inside the church and cannot wholeheartedly believe in Christ Jesus, so they will make the interior decoration of the church very simple.In addition, the head of a Catholic Church is usually called a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is usually called a priest.However, the two churches also have something in common, that is, there is a tomb about the church.Whether Catholic or Protestant, the relationship between church and tomb generally has three kinds. The first relationship is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the tomb is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the church floor.The first kind of tomb, most of which are buried by ordinary believers; In the second kind of tomb, most of the people buried are important figures in some believers; As for the third kind, that is, the one that puts the coffin directly on the church floor, it is a very important figure who has made great contributions to the church, and it is possible to enjoy this high honor after death.Of course, not all churches have catacombs. Some churches built very early could not build underground tombs under the church because of the limitations of construction technology or local conditions at that time. This is the case with the Catholic Church in San Fernando, for example.The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral was built for only a century, and the construction technology has long been no problem. Therefore, there is a large and deep underground tomb under the church, with three floors and nearly ten meters deep.Even Yang Jing was a little surprised by the grandeur of the cathedral after entering the basement of the cathedral. You know, this church was built around 1900. It was able to build such a huge three-story basement more than 100 years ago. Moreover, the Philippines is still an earthquake prone country. It has been a miracle that this church can still be kept intact for more than 100 years.Chris completed his task perfectly. In fact, it's easy to complete such a task. No matter what reason, it can't compare with the promised large amount of money.Chris just told his idea to the archpriest here, and then promised that if the church allowed his predecessors' ashes to be buried in the basement, he would donate $300000 to the church, but he needed to go down and have a look at the basement first.Money can make the mill push the ghost. Although $300000 has not been obtained, even the promised $300000 immediately asked the great priest to allow Chris to take two people down to see the basement.This is $300000, almost half of the annual donation of this church! How can such a big financier easily offend? Don't you just go down and have a look? What's there? There are all coffins below. What's so gloomy?So the great priest sent a man to lead Chris, the great financier, into the basement. Of course, Yang Jing followed Chris as an attendant this time.There is still a big gap between the thinking of westerners and Oriental people. For example, they have very different views on cemeteries.In the thinking of Oriental people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery is, the better. Yin and yang are different. The living can't be too close to the dead, otherwise something big will happen.In the eyes of Westerners, cemeteries are sacred places. Most Westerners build houses near cemeteries to get the protection of their ancestors. In the church, the tomb is built directly under the church floor.Although Yang Jing didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in China. He heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods. If he didn't believe in gods, he suddenly entered this gloomy underground tomb and couldn't help but stand a little sweaty.The basement is a masonry structure. Arches are formed between thick masonry columns. These dense arches bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the buildings above. The four walls of the basement are also masonry walls instead of cement polished walls imagined by Yang Jing.This makes Yang Jing feel very strange. The cathedral itself is located by the river. It is said that the groundwater level should be very high. If the basement is built in this place, if waterproof treatment is not done well, the basement would have been submerged by the emerging groundwater.But nothing happened here. Even in the third basement, which is more than ten meters deep, I didn't see any water stains in the basement except that I felt very wet and cold."Is there waterproof measures inside the wall?" Yang Jing thought, then shook her head and cut off the idea of thinking from this aspect. He is not an architectural expert, and he is not here to study the basement structure of the church. He is looking for treasure. If you don't understand these messy things, you can't understand them.Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is full of shelves made of dense brick and stone buildings. On these brick and stone shelves, sarcophagus are placed one by one. The coffin cover of each sarcophagus is engraved with a person's shape. Yang Jing knows that this human shape carving is actually the posture before life in the coffin.The cathedral covers a large area, so the area of the catacombs is not small. It is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagus on each floor.So many sarcophagus are densely placed together. With the cold and humid air here, there is really a chilling rushIf it were normal, Yang Jing would not have come to such a place when he was full. However, he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped focusing on these sarcophagus and walked towards the position where Baoguang appeared.The priest who came down with him went back on the second floor on the pretext of something. It seems that even the priest of the church is unwilling to come to such a place, and it is estimated that the priest is well aware of the following situation. There is nothing to look at except the sarcophagus, which means he doesn't have to follow these three people, I'm not worried about what trouble these three people can cause below.The priest didn't follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's action. Therefore, after arriving at the third floor, he just delayed a little and went to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because that piece of treasure light came out of this position.The church has existed for more than 100 years, so the sarcophagus in the basement is already full, even in the northeast corner of the third floor.But here, Yang Jing can clearly see the position of Baoguang. To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not put in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but in the wall!Obviously, after the little devils occupied lavag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for the little devils. However, after the little devils surrendered, the treasures that had no time to take away were hidden by the little devils in the basement of the cathedral.However, in order to prevent these treasures from being found by others, the little devil did not put the treasures in the sarcophagus, but chiseled the basement wall in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, dug out an additional basement, put the treasures in, and sealed the basement wall from the outside.In this way, there is a sarcophagus outside and a wall as a cover. It is estimated that no one would expect that there are still a large number of treasures hidden in this position!If Yang Jing didn't have heavenly eye skills and found those slightly leaked treasure lights, otherwise he wouldn't think there would be treasures in such a place!I can only say that the little devils are cunning!Obviously, those little devils knew that even if they were defeated, Americans would not have any doubt about this ancient church after they took over the Philippines again. Because of their faith, those Americans have no time to protect these churches. How can they destroy these churches? Therefore, it is the safest to hide the treasure under the home church.It is estimated that there are not a few little devils with this idea. Otherwise, a large number of treasures would not be buried under the Catholic Church in San Fernando.The treasures hidden under the two churches were not found by the Americans. Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of the two hiding places has not been leaked. Yang Jing is even sure that the defeated little devils will not tell about this hiding place. After all, this place hides a large number of treasures, which are likely to be collected from several places.This kind of hiding place is estimated to know very little even for the senior figures of the little devils.I just don't know how Alfred got such accurate information that he even marked the coordinates and locations.Unfortunately, Alfred, the head of the three heroes of ZTE in the DuPont family, spent a lot of effort to find these eight hidden places. He didn't have time to dig them, but they were all cheap to Yang Jing in the end."There are a lot of treasures buried in the underground of two churches in the eight places. Does that mean that the little devils buried more than these two churches? Maybe there are also a lot of treasures buried in the underground of some churches in big cities such as Manila, batayan, Davao and Cebu? Well, this possibility is actually very big. Do you want to wait for a chance in the future Go and have a look at the churches in those big cities? "Yang Jing touched her chin and thought, and the corners of her mouth tilted up slightlyPS: bow to thank the reward of "first kiss to hand" 500, "very lazy fish" and "little fish 62" 100.
