Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 726 Whirlpool

  The Church of Our Lady of Ankang is located at the entrance of the Grand Canal. If you come from the sea, you can see it at first sight, as well as St. Mark’s Cathedral.

  The Bible "Old Testament" records that there was a Semitic named Abraham after Noah, who had a son at the age of 99. One day the Lord suddenly came and asked him to kill his son Isaac to sacrifice. Isaac didn’t know that he was a sacrifice, and followed his father up the mountain. Abraham prepared everything. When he was putting his son on the altar to use his sword, the angel flew over and grabbed his hand. Use sheep as a sacrifice.

People’s devotion to God has reached the point of desperateness. When Venice was at war with the Ottoman Empire, it was in urgent need of military expenses, and the reconstruction work after the plague. When the money was so urgently needed, the church was allocated for repairs. This was the time when the Qing Dynasty embezzled military expenses for repairs. What is the difference between the Summer Palace?

   Reasonable people know that this is irrational and that money should be used where it is more needed, but after the plague, it is a kind of promise and a contract for the church of the Virgin. The Venetian believes that this promise must be fulfilled.

  In any case, we must repair the Church of Our Lady of Ankang, just like Abraham, in order to show his piety to God, almost killed his son, whom he had finally gotten.

  God made a joke to Abraham. He didn't really want Isaac's life. He used other "lambs" as sacrifices.

  Among so many architects, the Venetian chose Baldazare Longgna, a 33-year-old young man who is not experienced as a master architect.

   But a man of this age is in his prime, and his vision of women is different from that of 20-year-olds and middle-aged and elderly people after 40.

  A man likes a woman, it has nothing to do with what she wears, because in the end, she has to take it off. At this time, the shortcomings of the clothing will be exposed. The original beautiful imagination is different from the reality, but it will make people lose interest.

  Some men don’t like women to wear heavy makeup, not only because they don’t want to kiss the powder, but also because if the powder is too thick, it looks like a mask.

  When the sun began to set, the tourists holding their cameras returned to the boat during the day, and the dormant revelers were dispatched. In front of the Church of Our Lady of Angkhang, there were also many masked visitors wearing gorgeous medieval dresses. Time has been reversed because of them, as if it was Venice a hundred or more years ago.

  According to records at the time, 170,000 wooden piles were used to build the church just by laying the foundation. During the construction, Baldazare Longgna encountered many problems such as foundation collapse and wall support. In order to solve the stability problem, the architect also specially invented the strange spiral shape that supports the dome.

  She looked at this white building. What does she look strange?

  "Do you want to take a photo with her?" Monica asked.

   "Did you look at me with a camera?" Pomona complained, and she forgot it when she left in the morning.

   "It's okay, I'll help you take pictures next time you come here." Monica pulled her black wavy hair and said casually, "Where do you want to go shopping tomorrow?"

  She is not sure if Severus will take Monica to visit Venice.

   "Have you been to Torcello Island? There is Attila's Throne and Devil's Bridge."

  Pomona looked at the black-haired Muggle girl. She liked dark and evil things better than her own witch.

   "There is a Michelin restaurant on that island, which is incredible, right, it is almost a desert island." Ali Sandro said, "You have to make an appointment in advance if you want to go."

   "What?" she said incredulously.

"Most of the tourists who go to Cerro Island are looking for the mosaics in the main church of Torcello. I just want to know if there are real demons waiting on the Devil's Bridge." Monica said, "Austria back then. During the army’s occupation of Venice, a **** the island fell in love with an officer of the occupying army. This naturally attracted opposition from the girl’s parents. In the conflict against this marriage, the girl actually gave the boy to the boy. Killed, the panicked girl had to find the witch to help through the storm. So at the witch’s request, the devil appeared on the scene, but on the condition that the witch must exchange seven new lives for the young man’s life. The devil fulfilled first. The contract, on a moonless night, the girl came to the river as promised, the devil recalled the boy from the underworld, and built a small bridge for them to hug and meet each other, and the result was both flying high. When it was the witch's turn to fulfill her promise, this time There are no more people on the island, so the witch had to offer an extra week of grace. However, during this grace period, the witch passed away, so the young parents on the island kept their newborn child. The only disappointment was the fulfillment. The demon who has signed the contract. But there is still a saying that on every moonless night, the demon will still appear under the bridge and wait for the witch to fulfill her promise."

  "Aren't you afraid that the devil will come to me to fulfill the contract?"

   "I said, I want to confirm whether there is a devil."

   "Merlin's beard, I won't take risks to satisfy your curiosity!"

  "So you are not going?" Ali Sandro asked.

   "I want to ask." She didn't have the courage to say.

   "Oh~~" The two Venetians suddenly realized.

  "It’s okay, I’m in Piazza San Marco, if I’m not there, you can go to the Flora Cafe to find my mother, and she will call me."

  "My ship is waiting at any time." Ali Sandro said, "but I will go back to the main island at night. It is best not to spend the night on that island."

  Monica despised Ali Sandro, and the two quarreled again in Italian.

  Compared with the world-famous Church of Our Lady of Flowers, the Church of Our Lady of Ann Khang is not a famous attraction of the Renaissance, and there are no tickets here, as if it is just an ordinary church.

  Today is not a health festival. They can't enter through the gorgeous main entrance, they can only enter through an inconspicuous small door. The first thing that catches the eye is the main hall with a dome.

  Accurately speaking, it is a regular octagonal shape. It consists of 8 columns forming a spacious cylindrical space. The floor is covered with beautiful geometric patterns of marble. It is surrounded by a circle of 6 worship rooms.

  The setting sun spilled in through the window, creating a peculiar light and shadow effect. A man wearing a gorgeous embroidered coat stood in the middle of the marble floor.

He turned his back to them and faced the group of sculptures of Maria. If he was dressed in a formal dress a few centuries ago, it is now worn by carnival people. Only then did Pomona realize that her dress was out of fashion. , Quickly took off his mask.

  The man who turned his back to them and admired the church seemed to have noticed something and suddenly turned his head to look at them.

  He did not wear a mask, showing a very handsome Italian face. He was not tall but very sunny. He was about thirty years old. He had black hair and blue eyes, which looked a little weird.

   "Good evening." He said in bad English.

   "Good evening." Pomona looked at this weird person. Are Italians so enthusiastic?

  "Enjoy this beauty, because we don’t have much time." The man looked up at the octagonal ceiling again, "This ship is sinking."

   "Boat?" Ali Sandro asked strangely, "Where is there a boat?"

   "Idiot." Monica said, "He's saying Venice is sinking. The tip of this island looks like a ship's bow."

  But Pomona feels that this is not what he said.

  She followed his sight. Like all churches, this church also had ceiling paintings. What he saw was a scene in the Bible story. Abraham was about to kill his son, but was persuaded by the angel.

   Sometimes, God may not always be able to settle disputes, such as Cain killing Abel, it is also painted on the roof.

  There is no choir in the church, only priests in robes explain to the believers, but she feels that she hears the trembling of the devil.

  She has a cursed violin with six Muggle souls trapped inside. Put it here, can they be saved and liberated?

  She looked at the ugly woman chased by angels next to the statue of the Virgin, she seemed to be a symbol of the plague.

  You deserve to die if you are ugly, so how practical is your mother to wish you a face as beautiful as your father, don’t you think it’s right? Tom?

  (End of this chapter)