Pope Celestine V

buy their deceased loved ones way out too. The treasury of merit was a general account that housed the good works of Jesus and other higher beings. These good works could be shifted around to help people’s souls into heaven if they donated money; the Pope had control over this. With the money collected from selling indulgences, the new St. Peter’s Basilica was built. Despite the several negatives of the church having immense wealth, it did use it positively by giving large sums to…

With the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the Roman Catholic Church emerged and began its course to spread the word of God throughout Europe. Throughout the Middle Ages one of the most dominant religions the world has ever seen which was the Roman Catholic Church, played an integral role in the lives of everyday people. In these times, the Church was much more than a mere religious organization, instead playing a hand in hand role in many aspects of daily life as well as playing a key role in many…

St. John Rigby was one of the forty martyrs of England who was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. St. John was born somewhere close to Wigan, England and had friendly relations with the church. When St. John admitted that he was a Catholic, the people didn't seem to like it and he was placed in a nearby prison called Newgate. On June 21, he was hanged at a place called Southwark. St. John was given two chances to change his word but refused and is now a martyr. The feast day of St. John Rigby is…

“The Church believed that the reason for Pope Gregory IX's creation of the Inquisition was to bring order and legality to the process of dealing with heresy, since there had been tendencies in the mobs of townspeople to burn alleged heretics without much of a trial”. The inquisition started in…

in the day kings and emperors were actually not the only rulers that consolidated their power in the high Middle Ages; popes also did, and that was through a series of measures that would make the church more independent of secular control. “Under the leadership of a series of reforming popes in the eleventh century, the church tries to end this practice” (p.267). It was the popes’ efforts that were sometimes challenged by the medieval kings and emperors, in which the wealth of the church came…

Charlemagne or Charles the Great is most famous ruler of the Middle Ages. He lived ca 742-814 and ruled over the Frankish kingdom which covered Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and a part of western Germany. He went on to conquer much of western Europe, all under a policy of friendship and cooperation with the Christian Church. He therefore greatly contributed to the expansion of the Christian Church’s power. He also introduced the basis of Feudalism and revived the political and…

The medieval period started in the 5th century, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the 15th century around the Renaissance and The Age of Discovery. Most is what is said of the period is focused mostly on Europe where the empire fell and the Catholic Church exercise most of its’ power. The age is both look upon as ignorant and barbaric, as well as an enlightening time by historians. This is debated because not all people were the same, most were ignorant and few gain and spread…

a man who did not believe that the Pope was AntiChrist, she poured on his head a full… O Heavens! … A man who had not been baptized, an honest Anabaptist named Jacques, saw the cruel and ignominious treatment of one of his brothers… he took him home, cleaned him up, gave him bread and beer, presented him with two florins, and even offered to teach him to work” (235). Candide had asked a Protestant for food, but they refused because Candide would not call the Pope the Antichrist, and despite not…

its success making it more successful then it would have originally become. Things like Johannes Gutenberg’s publishing of his first Bible, Vasco da Gama reaching India by sailing around Africa, Marin Luther visiting Rome, Giovanni de Medici became Pope Leo X, and Johann Tetzel visiting near Wittenberg German caused the Reformation’s increase of popularity and success. These events lead to new practices and new thoughts by other people causing them to question the legitimacy of the Roman…

The Protestant Reformation started in the sixteenth century by individuals who felt that the traditional Catholic Church had gone against Christianity’s basic teachings. Many felt that the church had too much power over their followers and were using this power to control others and gather money. The church had been charging for indulgences, or forgiveness of sins, which was seen as fraud and greed in many individuals’ eyes. Some of the leaders in this reformation where Martin Luther and John…