 The indulgence was so highly prized, that when the commissary entered a city, the Bull was borne on a satin or goldembroidered cushion, and all the priests and monks, the town council, schoolmaster, scholars, men, women, maidens, and children, went out...  Compendium of Ecclesiastical History - Page 362by Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler, Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler, Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler - 1858 - 556 pages
...impudent monk gave out. He said that if a Christian had slept with his dear mother, and only placed a sum of money in the Pope's indulgence chest, the Pope...men, women, maidens, and children, went out to meet it with banners and tapers, with songs and procession. Then all the bells were rung, all the organs... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher, Edgar Holmes McNeal - 1905 - 654 pages
...the hills of St. Annaberg would become pure massive silver. Also, that, as soon as the coin clinked in the chest, the soul for whom the money was paid would go straight to heaven. . . . The indulgence was so highly prized that when the agent came to a city the... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher, Edgar Holmes McNeal - 1905 - 652 pages
...the hills of St. Annaberg would become pure massive silver. Also, that, as soon as the coin clinked in the chest, the soul for whom the money was paid would go straight to heaven. . . . The indulgence was so highly prized that when the agent came to a city the... | |
 | Andrew Graham-Dixon - 1999 - 344 pages
...Lord's Vineyard c. 1569 and earth to forgive the sin, and if he forgave it, God must do so also... Item, so soon as the coin rang in the chest, the soul for whom the money was paid would go straightaway to heaven.7 No one was more outraged byTetzel's activities on Leo's behalf than the priest... | |
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