Church

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The abandoned church of Isla Cruces.

"What were pirates doing in a church? I would wager they were not there to offer alms."

―Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III to the crew of the Barnacle

A church was a building used for an assembly of believers in Jesus Christ who come together to worship God and have fellowship with each other, through prayer and through the reading of the Bible. The word was used by analogy and simplicity for the buildings of other religions, mainly used for the different branches of Christianity, such as the Catholic Church and the Church of England. "Church" is also used to describe a body or an assembly of Christian believers of God, while "the Church" may be used to refer to the worldwide Christian religious community as a whole.

History

In the 1630s, the church in Redmond got into an involvement of note when one of its priests, Father Gareth, was in cahoots with the Animist Cult.

Many years later, the Church of San Judas was once the site of a clash between Jack Sparrow and Left-Foot Louis after the latter's crew dug up the coffin of Francois in the church's graveyard. Sparrow later impersonated a cleric of the Church of England, one of the notorious pirate's many crimes listed in the death sentence during his appointment with the gallows at Fort Charles in Port Royal. A church would be founded on the Caribbean island of Isla Cruces and abandoned at some point prior to the search for the Dead Man's Chest, most likely by the Spanish who brought Catholicism over the course of several hundred years to various Caribbean islands.

Features of a church

A church was typically a fairly tall building that prominently displayed a large cross. Inside a church were many rows of seats for worshippers, and possibly a pipe organ. Some churches had graveyards.

Notable churches or locations with churches

• Church of England
• Church of San Judas
• Douwesen
• Falaise de Fleur
• Isla Cruces
• Redmond
• San Silvestre

Behind the scenes

Churches would first appear in the 2003 video game Pirates of the Caribbean.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Isla Cruces is described as "A tiny green island amidst a sapphire blue sea. Dominating the bluff an abandoned Spanish church." After spotting the abandoned church, Elizabeth Swann and James Norrington talk about the story of Isla Cruces with the Church bringing salvation and death to the island, with the priest burying every body before being driven mad and hung himself. The scene with Elizabeth and Norrington as well as the hanged priest never made it to the final cut of the film, but they were retained in the film's junior novelization, as well as the deleted/extended scenes "Salvation" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" featured in Blu-ray releases beginning in 2011. While unconfirmed in the film, Rossio stated that Elizabeth was most likely referring to the Spanish who brought Catholicism over the course of several hundred years to various Caribbean islands.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean (2003 video game) (First appearance)
• Jack Sparrow: The Pirate Chase
• Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Mentioned only)
• Disney Pirates of the Caribbean: "Mother of Water"
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Mentioned only)

External links

• Church (building) on Wikipedia
• Church (congregation) on Wikipedia
• Christian Church on Wikipedia