The Abbey of St. Denis

If one need any more proof of the capability of the Tzombi to engage in spiritual endeavors, one need only look to the example of St. Denis Abbey.

In 1132 A.D., the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Denis, the first truly Gothic cathedral, seems to have benefited enormously by of Tzombi labor. The legend of St. Denis was one which would have appealed to the Tzombi population—he was sent to Gaul between the years 236 and 250 C.E. to help restore the Catholic Church, but the heathen priests eventually executed him and his companions. The Golden Legend relates it this way:

bespit and despised…beaten cruelly of twelve nights…stretched all naked upon the coals of fire…and anon the body of S. Denis raised himself up, and bore his head between his arms, as the angel led him two leagues from the place, which is said the hill of the martyrs.

Whether or not St. Denis was actually a member of the Tzombi race (and I hesitate to speculate on this with no data to support it), his abbey was a natural place of pilgrimage for the Tzombi population of France, and they were employed in building the cathedral. They would have been ideal laborers. But there is evidence that at least one Tzombi laborer made the ultimate sacrifice for the greater glory: the Golden Legend goes on to recount how, for nearly a decade after the completion of the abbey, the “foolish virgin” on the Northwest frieze was heard to knock at the door to the “Celestial City.” This might, of course, have been a typical miracle tale meant to draw people to the abbey -- early advertising if you will, if it weren’t for the fact that an X-ray of the wall taken during a restoration in the 1980’s revealed a skeleton walled up behind the sculpture. A murder, an accident, or a Tzombi volunteer, sacrificing himself for the “Miracle of the Knocking Virgin?”