John the Monk

John the Monk (1333-1377) worked in St. Ignatius’s Monastery from 1354 to his death in 1377 at the age of 44. He died after tripping and falling into a grave dug in the cemetery on his way to afternoon prayers.
== Biography ==
=== Life ===
John the Monk was born to his father, also called John, and his unnamed mother. He had an unnamed younger brother who also became a monk at St. Ignatius’s. John had a limited education, learning basic literacy skills in Latin and English along with basic arithmetic. He joined St. Ignatius’s Monastery when he was 21 and became part of the brotherhood. He had two particularly good friends called Brother George and Brother Alfred. John mentions in Get Out Of My House! that Brother George died of old age in 1372, five years before John’s own death. John and Brother Alfred both continued with their spiritual duties for the following years and John became one of the more senior monks amongst the group. He led prayers on a Monday and Friday afternoon. Life continued as normal until John discovered that the monastery priest, Father Paul, had broken his vow of chastity and was sleeping with somebody else’s wife. John feels obligated to report this and tells Alfred he will tell speak to the Bishop in his upcoming visit about it. Alfred accidentally lets this slip to another one of the monks, Henry, who is worried and tells Father Paul what is going on. Father Paul gets angry and has Henry and the two gravediggers help him dig a deep hole next to the path through the graveyard as they knew John would walk through it on his way to Sunday Afternoon Prayers. This is exactly what happens, and John trips and falls into the hole head first, breaking his neck.
=== Death ===
Once this has happened, the gravediggers come out and get Father Paul and Brother Henry and the four fill the hole back in and bury John’s body in the grave. They later lie about this and tell Alfred and the other monks that John tripped and hit his head on a rock and that he had requested a quick and quiet burial as he was a holy man and did not want a big fuss made for him. Alfred was suspicious but never said anything.
John is good friends with Mr. Carlton and Robert the Cavalier whilst they are ghosts. He also spends time with Judge Custard, Calvin, Steve (if his head is on), Harold and Chapman. He dislikes Claudius and the Roman ghosts because he thinks they are blasphemous, but never says anything to them about this.
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