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The Plague-Stricken Church
Location
An Unnamed Constantinople Church Turned Makeshift Hospital
Historical Accuracy
Keep unnamed unless the manuscript is revised to supply a canonical church name — do not identify it as a specific historic church. The manuscript uses it as a representative care site within Constantinople rather than a named landmark.
Historical Significance
Sources:
Timothy Miller, The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire.
This is where Merona tries to heal the afflicted with the Cauldron and discovers that the spreading corruption resists even ancient magic.
Historical Era
540 AD · Constantinople
Book II
Novel Canon Role:
Father Theodorus ministers to the sick while Merona moves among the pallets. Outside, panic and scapegoating erupt in the streets.
540 AD · Constantinople
Deliberately unnamed — a representative Constantinople care site, not a specific historic church.
Where Merona discovers the plague's corruption resists even the Cauldron's healing power.
church-hospital
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