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What are known as indulgences?

What was known as the Letter of Indulgences? 

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Pope Leo X wanted to build St. Peter’s Church. So he issued “pardon certificates” called “Indulgences” to those who gave money to build the Church. ‘Indulgences’ were letters that remitted punishments of the sinners who bought them, both in this life and after their death.

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