St. Mark's Cathedral
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Spicer Hills [27,98], [27,99], [28,98], [28,99]
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St. Mark's Cathedral is a four-block Christian cathedral in the suburb of Spicer Hills.
Coordinates: [27, 98], [27, 99], [28, 98], [28, 99]
Crucifixes, bottles of wine and first-aid kits can be found at St. Mark's Cathedral.
Tagging St. Mark's Cathedral earns no XP.
The Cathedral is to EHB at all times, although the SW corner can be VSB if the suburb is relatively safe.
The Malton Inspirational Channel claims St. Mark's as their official HQ, though their actual presence there is minimal.
News
July 15, 2009: The Brotherhood Of Nod has laid claim to this cathedral, Convert or be exterminated --Imthatguy 22:18, 15 July 2009 (BST)
April 20, 2008: St. Marks starts in a bold new direction...
On the week of January 23, 2006, the Church of the Resurrection took the cathedral and held a ceremonial mass where several current members were baptized. The Church then continued its pilgrimage to the next Cathedral. --RottemBanana 20:36, 28 Jan 2006 (GMT)
On February 16, 2006 the Vatican appointed Father Guido Sarducci to head the Archdiocese of Malton. Archbishop Sarducci immediately moved into St. Mark's Cathedral, converting it into his headquarters. Guido Sarducci 02:15, 6 March 2006 (GMT)
The NecroTech Countermeasure Squad has declared the cathedral as a warzone as part of a NTCS conducted cleansing of the southern sector of Spicer Hills. --Mikhail Vicktor 19:00. 05 April 2006 (EST)
The Big Bash has come to attend services at St. Marks. They take communion from the arms, legs, and brains of the survivors in residence. Zombie McAllen15:00, 26 June 2006 (GMT)
History
St. Mark's is named after and follows the gospel of the evangelical saint Mark, noted as author of the gospel book of Mark. He is the patron of barristers, bishops, and the City of Venice. His symbol is the lion.
Although it is commonly said that there are five cathedrals in Malton, this is something of an oversimplification. A cathedral is technically the seat of a bishop and as such there are only two true cathedrals in Malton: one of them, St. Matthew’s in Gibsonton, serves the Anglican communion while another serves the Catholic communion.
Just which location is the true seat of the bishop ordained by Rome is now a matter of some controversy. St. Mark’s of Spicer Hills served in this regard from the inception of the Diocese of Malton in 1896 (as part of the Province of Southwark) up until the outbreak in May, 2005. In the chaotic days following the quarantine, however, Bishop Lawrence Healy disappeared along with—for a time—any reliable mass schedule. Imposers arose from all corners.
The most notorious so far was an Italian immigrant calling himself “Archbishop Guido Sarducci.” Sarducci claimed, inter alia, to have been installed by the Vatican on 16 February 2006. Given the utter transparency of this fraud (no one has been allowed in or out of Malton since May, 2005; Malton is not an archdiocese) and the gravity of the resulting offense against apostolic succession, it is reasonable to conclude that Sarducci is an automatic excommunicate. It has been reliably reported that he is now among the living dead.
St. Mark’s has seen a steady decline since the disappearance of Bishop Healy, culminating in sacrilegious rituals performed there by the notorious Church of the Resurrection. This particular 'heresy' is considerably dangerous in and of itself but not a major theological threat given its total lack of subtlety. It is not really even a heresey, for heresey can only be committed by beings of free thought, rather than blood crazed devil spawn.
Notes
- Visitors are encouraged to genuflect, but not to over imbibe.
- There are no locations south of St. Mark's Cathedral because it touches the Quarantine Zone.
- Each zombie is allowed no more than one bite of Archbishop Sarducci during communion.
