The Order Page #2

- No, no, no. What are these?

- Do you know what these are?

- Maybe a birthmark.

- I don't know. I'm not a doctor.

- That's not a birthmark.

- When's the body due to be released to the church?

- It isn't.

When we are done with it,

it goes to the state...

for burial in the state cemetery.

Okay. Please, let's go.

Please. Come with me.

It's always nice to see a priest.

- And a Carolingian, no less.

- You've seen others?

A Dominic Sousa, perhaps?

Carolingians...

you surpass even theJesuits in your

heretical search for knowledge.

It's important to stay

inside the lines.

- What lines?

-

This way.

Those were the marks.

Dominic, what were you doing?

"Bread and salt

eaten off the body...

the sins of one man

consumed by the other."

A sin eater.

If Hitler had had one in the bunker,

he'd be sitting on a cloud right now.

- Of course, sin eaters...

haven't existed for two centuries,

have they?

What did Dominic buy from you?

Many things over the years.

Last time, a vellum parchment

written in Aramaic.

What did it say?

I'm not as clever as Dominic...

scholar of mysteries.

He delved deep and dark.

Always after knowledge.

I think he'd have sold his soul

for knowledge.

- Do you?

- His heretic soul or something precious to him.

Is there a price tag

on your head?

What's that supposed to mean?

Sometimes it's better

for a priest not to know.

Knowledge is the enemy of faith.

And sometimes when you

look into the abyss...

the abyss looks back into you.

- Look, his order meant everything to him.

-

Now, Dominic should be buried with

his order in the Concezione Cemetery.

Your order. His former order.

The Carolingians, not many

of you left in the world.

Yeah, a dying breed.

Look, and when they die,

it's the Concezione Cemetery.

Suicide is a cardinal sin.

- Dominic didn't commit suicide.

- It makes no difference.

He had been excommunicated, excluded

from our society and sacraments.

"There is no salvation outside the church."

- Yes, I know my Latin.

- Unlike your manners. Respect what you are.

Well, what I am is my concern.

Thank you.

Listen, I'm sorry. I am. I-

I need the theosophic council

to convene as soon as possible.

The council?

It hasn't convened in years.

For what purpose?

Tell them I found a sin eater.

A sin eater? Here?

At the start

of the new millennium?

How many other impossible things

do you believe in?

It's not impossible. I've seen the marks

on Dominic's body myself.

Your mentor

was excommunicated...

for rejection of articles of faith.

Heresy. Accept it.

He took his own life

because he couldn't bear that.

- Grazie, Franca.

- Father Alex.

Ciao, Maria. Ciao.

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