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from the towns,to come and force open the locks.
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And in many cases that doesn't work,
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so they have to bring people with huge axes.
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So, again, from the point of view of the church,
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this is the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian again,
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this is the martyrdom of ordinary people at the hands of a cruel,
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secularizing, centralized state,
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working against the interests of ordinary religious people.
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Now,to be sure,
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the Catholic Church had not done itself any great favors
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with the Papal Syllabus of Errors in 1864
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that said that modernity,