The St.
Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian church, so although this church looks much larger than the Catholic church in San Fernando, the interior of this church is much more modest than the Catholic church.After all, because of the doctrinal gap, the interior decoration of the Catholic Church and the Christian Church is also very different.But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, both belong to Christianity, but in China, because of the translation, Protestantism is called "Christianity", and Catholicism should actually be called "Roman Catholicism" correctly, and the other of the three major schools of Christianity is Orthodox Christianity.In fact, the difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism can be distinguished from the interior decoration of the church.The interiors of Roman Catholic churches, or Catholic churches, are mostly opulent, with painted walls, glass, and domes.In contrast, the interior of the Protestant church is much more modest, and it is said that the interior of the church is made very plain because the believers are afraid that they will not be distracted by the gorgeous decoration of the church and cannot wholeheartedly believe in Christ Jesus.In addition, the head of a Catholic church is often referred to as a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is often referred to as a priest.However, the two types of churches also have something in common, that is, there is a burial chamber for the church.Whether Catholic or Protestant, there are generally three kinds of relationships between the church and the burial chamber.The first is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the burial chamber is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the floor of the church.The first type of burial chamber is mostly for ordinary believers; In the second type of tomb, most of the burials are important figures in some believers; As for the third type, that is, the kind where the coffin is placed directly on the floor of the church, it is an extremely important person who has made a great contribution to the church, and it is possible to enjoy this kind of high honor after death.Of course, not all churches have catacombs.Some of the churches that were built very early were not able to build underground burial chambers under the churches due to the limitations of the construction technology or local conditions at that time.This is the case, for example, of the Catholic church in San Fernando.And this St.
Williams Metropolitan Cathedral, one is because the construction time is only a century old, and the construction technology has long been no problem, so there is a large and deep underground crypt under this church, which has three floors and is nearly ten meters deep.Even Yang Jing, after entering the underground crypt of this cathedral, couldn't help but feel a little surprised by the grandeur of this church.It is a miracle that this church was built around 1900, and that such a huge three-story basement could be built more than 100 years ago, and that the Philippines is also a country with many earthquakes, so it is a miracle that this church has been able to remain intact for more than 100 years.Chris has done his job perfectly, but it's also very easy to accomplish such a task, and no matter what the reason, it's not as good as the promised money.Chris simply talked to the high priest about his thoughts, and then promised that he would donate $300,000 to the church if the church allowed his predecessors' ashes to be buried in the catacombs, but he needed to go down and see the catacombs first.There is money to make a grinding ghost, although the 300,000 dollars have not yet arrived, but even the promised 300,000 dollars immediately asked the high priest to allow Chris to take two people down to see the catacomb.That's $300,000, almost half of the church's annual donation!
How can such a big financier be easily offended?
Isn't it just going down and seeing, what's there?
The place below is full of coffins, what is there to see about the eerie?
So the great priest sent someone to lead Chris, the big gold lord, into the underground tomb, of course, Yang Jing followed Chris down as an entourage this time.There is still a big gap between the thinking of Westerners and the thinking of Easterners, for example, there is a complete difference in the perception of cemeteries.In the thinking of Oriental people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery, the better, the difference between yin and yang, the living cannot be too close to the dead, otherwise something big will happen.In the eyes of Westerners, the cemetery is a sacred place, and most Westerners build their homes near the cemetery in order to be protected by their ancestors.In the church, the burial chamber is built directly under the floor of the church.Although Yang Jing doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in China since he was a child, and he has heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods.The basement is a masonry structure, with arches formed between the thick masonry columns, and these dense arches bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the buildings above, and the four walls of the basement are not the walls ground with cement as Yang Jing imagined, but also brick and stone walls.This made Yang Jing feel very strange, the cathedral itself is located by the river, it is said that the groundwater level should be very high, in this kind of place to build a basement, if not do a good job of waterproofing, the basement would have been flooded by the groundwater that came out.But there was nothing wrong here, even in the third basement about ten meters underground, except for feeling very wet and cold, there were no water stains in the basement."
Is there a waterproofing inside the wall?"
Yang Jing thought about it, then shook his head, and cut off the idea of thinking from this aspect again.He's not an expert in architecture, and he's not here to study the basement structure of this church, he's here to hunt for treasures, and if you don't understand this mess, you can't figure it out.Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is also full of dense masonry shelves, on these masonry shelves, there are sarcophagi one by one, and the lid of each sarcophagus is carved in the shape of a person, Yang Jing knows that this humanoid carving is actually the posture of the person in the coffin.The cathedral covers a large area, so the area of the underground crypt is not small, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagi on each floor.With so many sarcophagi densely placed together, with the clammy and cold air here, there is really a chilling rush If it were changed in normal times, Yang Jing would not come to this kind of place with a full stomach, but this time he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped paying attention to these sarcophagi, but walked towards the position where Baoguang came out.The priest who came down with him went back on the second floor under the pretext that something was wrong, it seems that even the pastor of the church is reluctant to come to this kind of place, and it is estimated that the priest is also very aware of the situation below, except for the sarcophagus is a sarcophagus, there is nothing to see at all, even if he doesn't have to follow these three people, he is not worried that these three people can cause any trouble below.This priest didn't follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's actions, so after coming to the third floor, he only delayed slightly, and then walked to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because it was from this position that the treasure light came out.This church has been around for more than a hundred years, so the sarcophagus in the basement has long been full, even in the northeasternmost corner of this third floor.But by here, Yang Jing could already clearly see the location where Baoguang came out.To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not placed in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but in the walls!
Obviously, after the little devils occupied Laoag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold of the little devils.However, when the little devils surrendered, the treasures that were too late to be taken away were hidden in the basement of this cathedral by those little devils.However, in order to prevent these treasures from being discovered by others, the little devil did not put the treasures in those sarcophagi, but in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, he chiseled the basement wall, dug out an additional basement, and then put the treasures inside, sealing the basement wall from the outside.In this way, there are sarcophagi and walls outside as cover, and it is estimated that no one would have thought that there are a large number of treasures hidden in this location!
If Yang Jing hadn't had the Heavenly Eye skill and discovered those slightly leaking treasures, he wouldn't have thought that there would be treasures hidden in such a place!
It can only be said that the little devil is cunning and cunning!
Obviously, those little devils knew very well that even if they were defeated, after the Americans retook the Philippines, they would not have any doubts about this ancient church.Because of faith, those Americans are too late to protect these churches, how can they destroy them?
Therefore, it is safest to hide the treasure under the church at home.It is estimated that there are not a few little devils who have this idea, otherwise there would not be a large number of treasures buried under the Catholic church in San Fernando.And these treasures hidden under these two churches were indeed not discovered by the Americans.Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of these two hiding places has not been leaked, and Yang Jing is even sure that the little devils who were defeated back then would definitely not tell this kind of hiding place, after all, this kind of place hides a large number of treasures, and it is very likely that they were collected from several places and hidden.This kind of hiding location is estimated to be very little known even for the high-level bigwigs of the little devils.I just don't know how Alfred got such accurate information back then, and even marked the coordinates and locations.It's a pity that Alfred, the head of the three heroes of the DuPont family, spent a lot of effort to get these eight hidden locations, and he didn't have time to dig them, but in the end they were all cheaper than Yang Jing."
Two of the eight locations have a large number of treasures buried underground, does that mean that there were not only two churches where the little devils buried their treasures?
Perhaps there are also a lot of treasures buried under some churches in the big cities of Manila, Batangas, Davao, and Cebu?
Well, it's actually quite a possibility.Do you want to wait until you have the opportunity to visit the churches in those big cities in the future?
”Yang Jing touched his chin and thought, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightlyps: bowed and thanked "The First Kiss gave the hand" 500 reward, "Very Lazy Fish", "Little Fish 62" 100 reward.