<div class="lheading">The Burned Man</div> --- #### By: Jean-Pascal Delcroix --- >[!grid|col-3] >>[!note|blank] >><span class="info">Location</span> >>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">[[Béliveau]]</font></span>_ > >>[!note|blank] >><span class="info">Date</span> >>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">14/12/2025</font></span>_ > >>[!note|blank] >><span class="info">Session</span> >>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">[[Session 29]]</font></span>_ >[!noted] ><center>A re-telling of the Prince Consort of Fortuma's story, and a recounting of his many divine acts.</center> --- > [!clue|no-title paper-a] ><div class="typewriter1">The Burned Man</div> > >--- > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">“For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.” he told them. “In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.” </div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. Right away a man with leprosy came up and knelt before him, saying, “My prince, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Reaching out his hand, the prince touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.”</div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then the prince told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Jacques commanded, as a testimony to them.”</div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">When he had come to the other side, to the region of the Viermont, a two demon-possessed men met him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent and terrorized the region for so long, that no one could pass that way. No one could restrain them—they couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down. They had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but they broke the chains, and snapped the ropes. No one was strong enough to tame them. Night and day they roamed through the graves and the hills, screaming out and slashing himself with sharp stones.</div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">When they saw the prince they howled in protest, “What do you have to do with us, Prince of Man? Have you come here to punish us before the right time comes?” A long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding. “If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”</div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">“Go! ” he rebuked them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs. Crazed, the whole herd stampeded over the cliffs into the sea and drowned.</div></p> > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="left">The swinetenders, afraid, bolted toward their homes. They went into the city and told of everything that happened to the men and the pigs. At that, the whole town went out to meet the prince. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region and not return.</div></p> > >--- > ><div class="typewriter1"><p align="right">455</div></p> &nbsp; --- >[!cite|transcript]- Transcript >“For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.” he told them. “In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.” > >When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. Right away a man with leprosy came up and knelt before him, saying, “My prince, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Reaching out his hand, the prince touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” > >Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then the prince told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Jacques commanded, as a testimony to them.” > >When he had come to the other side, to the region of the Viermont, a two demon-possessed men met him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent and terrorized the region for so long, that no one could pass that way. No one could restrain them—they couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down. They had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but they broke the chains, and snapped the ropes. No one was strong enough to tame them. Night and day they roamed through the graves and the hills, screaming out and slashing himself with sharp stones. > >When they saw the prince they howled in protest, “What do you have to do with us, Prince of Man? Have you come here to punish us before the right time comes?” A long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding. “If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.” > >“Go! ” he rebuked them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs. Crazed, the whole herd stampeded over the cliffs into the sea and drowned. > >The swinetenders, afraid, bolted toward their homes. They went into the city and told of everything that happened to the men and the pigs. At that, the whole town went out to meet the prince. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region and not return.