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uriel1972

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17. Another element was the money to be gained from religious tourism...

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:06 AM

Jan 2019

Or should I say pilgrimages to see the relics of saints.

The competition for such pilgrimages caused the theft of relics from nearby centres of worship. The rationale being 'If God did not want us to have them, we would not have been able to take them'

Oh the dark joys of the Medieval Times. Then the Renaissance came and humanism sprouted in Europe once more, Damn dirty hippies.

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