As soon as James got back to The Huntress Inn, he and the others who had been in attendance at St. Emmanuel’s Church met with Elizabeth to update her on the proclamation from the pope. Nobody was particularly surprised that the Curia and Daniel were continuing their attacks on Kyata and now, personally on Elizabeth. The fact that they had been able to persuade the pope to take such unprecedented action as revoking her sainthood showed the lengths to which they were prepared to go to suppress them.
The citizens of Sdel continued to gossip about the pope’s proclamation which the cardinal had read … to a man, they could not believe there were grounds for depriving Princess Elizabeth of her sainthood because she had always been so kind and giving to all the royal subjects. She had
