Mr. Ballin
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34,749 appearances
160 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
Mr. Ballin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So Jan was part of an army that fought for the Habsburg Empire, which ruled most of Europe at the time, and they had just won this huge battle and taken over this city, Prague.
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And since the battle was now all done, Jan and many of his other soldiers were supposed to go home soon.
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But before Jan left, he felt like he deserved some spoils of war.
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And he'd heard that this specific church was filled with all these gold and jewels, and it had not been ransacked.
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Like lots of buildings in Prague had been ransacked by this point by the invading army, but the church had gone untouched.
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Very likely because it's a sacred building, and even the invading army recognized that.
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John, he could care less about the sanctity of this building.
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He had snuck in earlier that day, pretending to be a worshiper, and he had seen that the rumors about this place being full of incredible jewelry and gold.
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It was right.
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Pretty much everywhere he looked, there were things to steal, like beautiful gilded furniture and little jewelry pieces that worshippers had left around as offerings to the church and its
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Saints, I mean this place was like a gold mine.
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But what excited Jan the most was up on the church altar.
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Up there there was this huge statue of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus on her lap, with one hand behind his head.
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and the other gently resting on his stomach.
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And this statue had a massive gold chain around the Virgin Mary's neck, which Jan really wanted to steal.
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So he had snuck up to this cramped church loft to wait for his chance to do just that.
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Just then Jan heard the heavy front doors of the church close with a bang,
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And after that, it was complete silence.
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He waited a few more minutes just to be sure, and then when he knew the coast was clear, he got out of his hiding spot, he stretched.
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Made his way towards the altar.
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