the reason the saints were thrown out by the reformers is because both the gospel-as-written and north European political aspirations are about unmediated power relations, made fair by virtue of this unmediated quality — by the gospel everyone is to address God as Father equally and live together in that same collective unity, and similarly the ideal Northern society is composed of a coalition of free men uniting in moots, possibly under an elected King whom you have let into your heart.
Mediterranean society, on the other hand, in its ideal form is rich in patron-client relations but ones which, unlike real ones, are characterised by the patron being distant, infinitely wealthy, involved almost entirely in arcane politics which you are shielded from entirely and therefore reasonably and realistically beneficent within limited spheres, and therefore not also jealous of you seeking other patrons. is there a god-emperor at the top? maybe, yes, but that’s what your patron’s arcane politics is about. in the very worst cases you can just get your grandmother to speak to the mother of the god-emperor.