PERSECUTION OF THE STRANGER

From the second chapter, we can start realizing that this novel will focus in the persecution of priests or followers of the catholic religion.
One of the characters, the lieutenant, makes the readers understand the hate that should be developed towards individuals who think God is magnificent. The stranger from the first chapter is now recognized as a priest, who’s being watched by government, and all members of it are aware of his escape. “I could guarantee to fetch this man in, inside a month...”(P.23) Every priest has to be persecuted and executed, since the lieutenant thinks there’s no merciful God and that existence is meaningless. This point of view wasn’t just analyzed by this character, since in many periods of time the catholic church had to face several schisms.
The character, so I think, is referring to the Schism that occurred with Martin Luther and Calvin, when the Christian church was divided in two main branches, the protestants and the Catholics. Some of the differences mainly consisted on; the priests´ role, whether they could or couldn’t get married, the concept of the Immaculate conception, the ineffability of the pope, the Bible interpretation, the way some of the rituals as well as the sacraments were performed, and lastly the concept of the Holy Trinity which still varies within the two religious branches.
With this conception about catholic religion persecution, we shall now be aware about the Stranger or priest’s flee.