The Opposition of Minds

 "Great spirits have often encountered opposition from weaker minds."

There was a time in the Caribbean, when the nobles had the upper hand. Where the peasants were nothing but what it is they are called. Where a word of a noble was taken over the word of a peasant.

Chapter One
On December 3, of 1703, Duchess Elizabeth Zichy was scentenced and put to death for bearing the child of a peasant man named Mikhail. In this time, the some peasants in the land of Austro-Hungary were last name-less, or had not ever known their last name because they knew not how to write it down. The child's name, as requested per the Duchess Zichy in her last will and testament, was to be Matthias. Of course, the last will of the duchess was respected by her still heart-broken husband, Duke Kristof Zichy II., who later re-married, and never wanted to hear word from his step-son.

On the night of his birth, the baby Matthias was taken to the Abadía San Antonio Abad, a monastery of Benedictine monks, where he was to be raised, and where he was to die, in the service of God, to suffer a lifetime of service in return for the forgiveness of his mother's sins - as per the order of the husband of the late duchess Zichy.

In the forthcoming years of that night, 17 years, to be exact, when a newborn child was brought to the monastery, Ezekiel, a Benedictine monk on the corner of death's door gave his last will, requesting the release of the young monk Matthias from the convent, to the world. Seems that Ezekiel was an influential man, because the adolescent he had mentioned in his will was, a week later, informed by the governor of the Puerto Rican Isles that if he wishes to do so, he may leave the monastery to start a brand new life in the outside world which he had dreamnt about visiting since as far back as he could remember, for only one reason - because it was exactly what he was not supposed to do. But his desire for this was so strong, that he prayed to God everyday, that if it is possible, he be released from the chains of the church and given freedom.