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<blockquote cite="mid:EF24FE203DD9490E9498C994865C3434@jill"
type="cite">But in fact there is no particular evidence that there
is a Catholic Church in the Solar Cycle, except that a religion
that has some similarities to it is described as being a parody of
some undescribed state religion (this information comes from an
alien vampire who was never on Urth). But there are several
pieces of evidence for the existence of Jesus.
In BotNS itself, there is no real evidence for either.
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I think the information came from Lemur...but, okay, he had never
been on Urth either. Still, the rituals of the Charter map
one-to-one with the Catholic Church. And the Chrasmological Writings
contain references from the Gospels.<br>
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As for evidence in BotNS itself, I offer Andrew and Matthew's
analysis:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Andrew
Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrew.mason53@googlemail.com">andrew.mason53@googlemail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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Also. Severian dreams of a ritual taking place in the Citadel
chapel<br>
at a time before the old sun was darkened, which involves bread,
wine<br>
and a knife - not exactly the Christian eucharist, but something
like<br>
it.<br>
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Matthew Weber replied-<br>
In the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, the (leavened) bread used in
Communion is cut with a triangular-bladed knife, referred to as the
Spear.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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