I, The Dragon Overlord Chapter 399 - Louie the Christ

The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran was the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome in the city of Rome and served as the seat of the city’s bishop - the pope.

It was one of the oldest and highest ranking of the four major papal basilicas in Rome. It also possessed the title of the ecumenical mother church of the Roman Catholic faithful, which allowed it to possess the same sanctity in the minds of Catholic believers as St. Peter’s Basilica.

In the past, these famous Catholic Churches were visited by many true believers and even more tourists. But ever since the events in Kenya, several of the papal churches in Rome had been closed off to tourists for 30 days, and only true believers could visit them.

Moreover, the Vatican was its own religious state with its own legal authority. Even Italy, the city’s “geopolitical boss” complied with its demands.

Italy’s near-universal Catholicism appeared to be even more frenzied and fanatical about the descent of Christ, whose ‘body’ was now in the aforementioned building.

The devout Catholic faithful submitted an application for worship to the Vatican after Christ’s ‘death’, and the Vatican believed that Christ sacrificed himself for the sake of the world and that he deserved the pilgrimage of many believers, so they readily agreed to the application. As a result, they would accept a daily number of pilgrims from the faithful during the thirty days, in which Christ announced his resurrection.

These believers had to be absolutely devout and needed to pass a lot of screening and investigation, but even so, many believers were also eager to sign up, especially those rich and powerful devotees. They used all means to come to see the face of Christ. With the luxurious life and power that they possessed in the mortal world, they hoped to go to heaven after death.

It was not that these rich and powerful wanted to go to heaven for their enjoyment, but to get closer to their Lord and to the God, they believed in.

At the entrance of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, hun

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