"I knew him, you know?" remarked the priest.
"St Axel?" asked his companion.
"Oh yes. Not well, it's true. But our paths had crossed. I understood him to be a devout man. Though it was always his size that people remarked on."
"I'm sorry for the loss," Monsieur Gallo offered.
"It is not a loss," Canon François countered. "I dare say Axel the monk had some trifling value to the Order, but Axel the Saint's value far outranks it."
"Oh?"
"The penitent man, embraced by the faithful as one of the true saints: a potent symbol to all Sea Rats that they can always find redemption and reconciliation - even in their final hour. Why else do you imagine I raised him to sainthood?" This will be licensed as a small arts and culture for Acropolis.