sacred sanctuary theme
Featured is a tradition that designates certain places of worship as havens into which people may take refuge from persecution of one kind or another. Typically, criminals or political dissidents are seen to take refuge from the state.
Examples
In ahp1x22 "Place of Shadows", Both Rocco and Ray take sanctuary in a monastery. The abbot invokes tradition in order to prevent Ray from seeking out Rocco, and later impede the police searching for Ray.
5 total · 1 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp1x22 | major | Both Rocco and Ray had taken sanctuary in a monastery. |
| play: Richard III (1597) | minor | Buckingham told the Cardinal to extract a young prince from sanctuary because children could not claim sanctuary |
| tc1983e02 | minor | It was a point of outrage that King Demetrius had been murdered in a sacred temple, where the principle of sanctuary was presumed. |
| tc1983e03 | minor | Cleopatra IV took refuge in the Temple of Apollo after coming out on the losing side a a civil war. Grypus disingenuously assured her that he would not follow his mother's example by shedding blood in the temple. He instead left it to his wife, Cleopatra Tryphaena, to give the order for Cleopatra IV's execution. |
| tc1983e08 | minor | On Cleopatra VII's behest, Mark Antony murdered her sister Arsinoe even though she had sanctuary as a priestess of Ephesus in the Temple of Diana. |