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bulate the
number of days' remission from purgatory that each rank in
the hierarchy was entitled to grant: cardinals two hundred days
archbishops a hundred daysbishops a mere fifty days. By his time
howeverindulgences were no longer sold directly for money. Even
in the Middle Agesmoney was not the only currency in which you
could buy parole from purgatory. You could pay in prayers too
either your own before death or the prayers of others on your
behalfafter your death. And money could buy prayers. If you were
richyou could lay down provision for your soul in perpetuity. My
own Oxford CollegeNew Collegewas founded in 1379 (it was
new then) by one of that century's great philanthropistsWilliam of
WykehamBishop of Winchester. A medieval bishop could become
* An Australian friend coined a wonderful phrase to describe the tendency for reli-
giosity to increase in old age. Say it with an Australian intonationgoing up at the
end like a question: 'Cramming for the final?'
A MUCH NEEDED GAP [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! 359
the Bill Gates of the agecontrolling the equivalent of the inform-
ation highway (to God)and amassing huge riches. His diocese was
exceptionally largeand Wykeham used his yilai:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
http://www.cesarstworpg.fora.pl/gazety-swiata,7/on-the-makaloa-mat-londonjack-publishedaamdoh,6626.html#16766
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