Entries tagged with the friar and the heretic

The Gray Friars don't spend a great deal of time hunting for active non-believers, preferring to proselytize to those who don't have any particular faith and to minister to anyone who needs them, and in any case the Mother Church's inquisitors – and sometimes the Black Friars – always seem to find the heretics first. Brother Peire has to content himself with talking to his brother friars about what to do about heresies and how to handle the people preaching them.

The consensus, unsurprisingly, is that they must be made to recant, for their own good and the good of their immortal souls, and so they can't spread their heresies like a plague among the faithful. Several of the brothers, as well as the abbot, are old enough to remember the last violent surge of heretical belief and the spiritual trauma that it inflicted on the city, and while no one really wants to see a return to those days, everyone should be prepared for them.

( We were put on this earth to help men and women find peace )

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When Peire is five years old, his mother dies of a fever. He has no brothers or sisters and his father spends his days working in the fields for the lord who owns the land and the village, and even though he is old enough to go to the tiny church school for a couple of hours a day, and even though he is also old enough to have started to make friends among other boys in the village, his mother is pretty much his entire world, and he is distraught when she dies. All through her fever, he stayed with a neighbor family to avoid the mist of sickness that clung to her. His father doesn't know what to do with him, so Peire spends his days with neighbors and his nights in his father's small, very quiet house.

( People die all the time in this world. )

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little old ladies think brother peire is cute

i don't know what i'm doing and you can tell, but hey, day one!