Ioannes knew what Valentinus was talking about.
“I swear to God—He knows I’m true, that I paid the penalty of five marks on each visitation,” he finally told the chaplain.
“But according to a report, the origin of which I have no information, I keep all these penalties and shut my eyes to your disobedience against the law of the council. Moreover, the report mentions that I have been supporting you with my periodical visits.”
Ioannes didn’t say a word. He felt that the chaplain was right. The truth was that he tolerated the fact that Ioannes didn’t remain celibate, and he regularly gathered the penalty while he made his people—and himself—well fed during these visitation.
“I’ve come to change that,” the chaplain said and bit into a hardboiled egg. “Because we must do something against
