Marduk City

[Ace Dreamer]

Rakhasa wrote:

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The Santa Maria catholic cathedral is on that square, a gilded gothic
church lifting over the surrounding houses. The cathedral is the biggest
church in the city, and, thought the citizens have always called it
“the cathedral”, it actually was not even a consecrated church for many
years; it was not consecrated, granted Cathedral rank, and had a bishop
named, until 2020.
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I am interested in
comments about the cathedral part. When I first put a cathedral in the
map, I had forgotten that simply naming a big church a “cathedral” does
not make if so; a Catholic Cathedral is the seat of a bishop, and that
can only be named by the Pope. Since we extended the timeline, this gave
me some breath space, so, at the moment, my tentative idea is that the
first Bishop of Marduk was named in 2020. So I would appreciate comments

The Catholic Church will not let such a large populations of Catholics go without ministry for long.  There might be missionaries, but I like to think there is a Fen Jesuit priest who remembers the order of St. Vidicon:
http://christopher.stasheff.com/wiki/Saint%2BVidicon
I'd suggest that at least one Jesuit priest be an important character from early on in Marduk's settlement.  Maybe they get made the Bishop, later?
For extra fun, there could be a construction robot or two who want to be religious...
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