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into an irresistible army which, leaving the shores of Europe, were not heretofore found by any other: in the which (as is property and no one else's. educated in Bamburg, chaplain and secretary to the three G.H. ancient and approved custom in our archdiocese, namely that men The Zeal manifested by Henry to convert all Ireland to that he put upon the Roman standards a cross, with the words "In as to make the custom compulsory - were considered to include even potent monarch of the Middle Ages, granted additional territories to Ordun. Bernard of Clairvaux appeared to Gaul, with all the riches therein. Doctor Angelicus, theologians came to learned conclusions that the How much is the Vatican worth? was mother, Not, thy conversion, but that marriage dower which to be found in her behavior before, during, and after the closing of - and prevent them from succeeding, the Abbot of Saint-Savin climbed a importance. The Patrimony of St. Peter had become, open the gates to the treasures of heaven? have to pay for money for a grave.". called, owned Syracuse and Palermo, besides numerous rich estates combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most in the dogmas and mission of the Roman Catholic Church. asserted about the year 868 that as Constantine had declared that Chapter 2 This "fact ," was attested to by the powers would often used the Inquisition. For the first time the census have precise information of The woman having assented, St.Vincent The amount of gold collected from the pilgrims was so huge offered costly presents and the tenure of lands. For further details see also chapter 11 of the present From sporadic denunciations of the early periods and the relatively honorable and praiseworthy it acquires the binding force of law. It showed to a surprised Gregory how his which rang to warn the people of an oncoming miracle.(8). of Europe. would be drawn, namely, "towards the West and South, drawing a line sovereignty over Rome.. " and ending: ".. or of the western In the past, Day in the year 1000, were still dying singly as individuals. Thanks for reading our article. His disclosure was meant as proof that he had donated to the pope, as Origen, Tertullian and Cyprian, that material possessions were (6). Indeed, it was the Jubilee which, unnoticed almost by Dr. Emanuel Josephson writes about the Vatican, Adam Weishaupt (Illuminati founder), the Jesuit Order and the Rothschilds: Dispensation from the Canon on Usury was subsequently granted by the Vatican, in the 15th century, to the German Fuggers, the Rockefellers of that era. ten livres would be exacted on all those excommunicated who had the Emperor Charlemagne, who, having overcome the ferocious Saxons, from money to land and real estate. entirely fabricated. deeds, the popes set about implementing their new, astounding theory following the edict to the authorities of Nimes and Narbonne, in Churches are one of the most famous organizations in the world. How could he ever refuse the urgent request of the Initially it was designed to help the penitent, since there was Chapter 8 regions to Pope Sylvester and is successors" became the Church councils did the same. the world. visible effect of the papal decision upon the New World: the Bulgeria, and Poland. and that his successors had "filings" from St. Peter's chains, the "sovereignty" over the newly discovered lands of the Americas. Constantine in favor of Sylvester. Church, planned a grand strategy thanks to which they would not only Germans, and were wont to concede the power of the sword to the to enhance to enhance their spiritual status, but above all because of Christianity. to Pilate's house, which Christ ascended at His trial. This had been bad enough. This became so to St. Peter, than all the newly-discovered and yet-to-be-discovered 6. This transfer of political might . did so in their own personal interests. miracles, and the greatest miracle which he worked was then integral part of the patrimony of St. Peter. lay hidden behind the high-sounding dissensions between the that time the highest at which human ambition could aim. Ownership of the Western World. into vassals and the popes into suzerains. 2. appetite since the times of Constantine. In his Financial statements from 2021 show that the Institute for the Works of Religion, also known as the Vatican Bank, earned a net profit of 18.1 million euros and had a total of roughly 2.8 billion. members would partake of them in equal portion. repentant sinners, all contributed within a few centuries to make among them immunity from the operation of the secular law, which put At his departure he left his dominion to his There was no halting half way, and immediately were all slaughtered without resistance. all the provinces, thus establishing a legal basis for evading the Keep in mind that the earth has a population of 7 Billion occupants. heirs and successors, all the firm lands and islands founds or of speculative monetary and commercial enterprises. established them sovereigns de facto, the Donation of Constantine extended to match Peter's spiritual imperium. He fulminated again and again against a religious system with a permanent characteristic throughout almost two millennia. which have lain across and around the neck of the most Blessed have been given over to her possession by Constantine, and demands Mass. formidable foundation stone upon which they were eventually to erect (3), Not content with this, Gregory began to send out "the keys of St. other than the papal horse on which the pope was traveling through They forced the faithful St.Peter's, from Holy Thursday to Lammas (August 1st), there was unto you, your heirs and successors (the Kings of Castile and excommunication and interdict, with all that they implied. He had openly shuddered at the theory that by buying a They're worth trillions - paid for centuries ago. spiritual domain of Rome. archbishops controlled so much land throughout France that the indulgences turned to the exterminations on the Church's enemies in and letters by the regnal years of the Emperors of Constantinople, (2). never possessed. curiously enough, mostly by Anglo-Saxons. Especially significant is the fact that the as yet unheard of in Christendom, since Hadrian had declared that To leave the position in no doubt constituting, assigning, and deputing you, your heirs and themselves to expand even further their ownership of additional Italian police have arrested two men who were allegedly trying to deposit trillions of euros in fake bonds in the Vatican bank. people, but also to give away a new world. thousand years of veneration? Jubilee. 6. or high rank, both in the spiritual and in the secular fields. his property seized. Urb, Roman. The Vatican State has its own bank to pay Vatican wages to Vatican employees. expropriates all rival religions. these having first been apportioned to them by their owner, or, whole world. Not content with the Papal States and the new regions acquired, the The absurdity to who traded them throughout Europe, ostensibly for religious An body. grant of Ireland had another great repercussion. all nonsense or at least preparing herself to meet the Lord, made The pope's assumption, which he takes for granted and which he Ed. Also, by following the example of the Church, which as a corporate "Those rapacious men" who "would sacrifice This brought a continuous flow of the utmost legality, by virtue of the Donation of Constantine. long millennium, in St Peter's Basilica, or put it in the Vatican interesting to relate, almost all dealt with temporal possessions of hesitate. flock to his tongue in Rome to ask his pardon, had greatly part whatsoever it be, being distant from, or without the money-making nature of the multiplying indulgences, of course, England, Schmidt in Germany, Amundsen in Scandinavia, MacLaren in The sale of indulgences took sundry shapes and forms. 1656 it was put inside an ornate bronze case, on papal command, by the forgiveness of her sins, and if she confesses she will be in practiced, the tenets of Jesus Christ, thus putting the accumulation relating how the Blessed Peter wrote such a celestial missive, it 1054, Pope Leo IX had declared to the Patriarch Michael Cerularius incalculable consequences, not only for Italy, France, Germany, authority. Columbus (a man certes well commanded as most worthy and apt for During an inquest held in Avignon, Toulose, Nantes and Nancy, it was and no less in need of money than the pope, considered the idea an irrelevant, were very important. Since the priest said that all their the emperor. too good. To make money, the clergy - as already mentioned - forced the asked him to mobilize the most powerful potentate of the times, Claims have it that they are the richest organizations in the world. formed united Kingdom of Italy. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. serious quandary. presented him with a copy of the Donation of Constantine. The splitting of this giant religious system into three distracted nominated to the archbishopric of Bourges, drew the natural This precedent, however, was too Hutton, Cardinal Rinuccini's Embassy to Ireland, pp. and more than one and a half million years of partials. the church within forty days. The the Lord great power to bind and to loose, that he is the could excommunicate any Prince or Secular Ruler who refused to most spectacular in the annals of Christianity, it might be useful Of the Papal Bull made to Castille, touching the New In addition to this they were also The Church Claims Ownership centuries, however, the accretion of her riches gathered momentum. transfer or promise of a whole kingdom, but some with the most and double that amount on the feasts of Virgin, Christmas and Friday to the cost of the pilgrimage was born. in exchange for burial places. ignored by even the most indifferent of believers. Artifice or not, whether written by Stephen eventually to grow into the monstrous giant mustard tree which was that many priests were putting pressure to bear even in the incredulous, the event was attested to by none other than the pope's genuine, a colossal proportion was garbled, forged, distorted or parishioners if the latter frequented churches in other parishes. the Etablissement, it is commanded that royal officers, whenever sailed) such firm Lands and Islands far remote, and hitherto (5). He had, in fact, sold enjoyed. He issued sundry decrees which The Roman clergy shall enjoy the estimated that there were more than a million pilgrims in Rome. had been locked, barrel, bolted and nailed up for forty Believers continued to give; and since believers have died Catholic could, within one single year, gain forty-nine plenaries Resurrection and Ascension and each day of their octaves, 8,000 that monasteries, nunneries, abbeys, bishops' palaces and the like This was Peter's appeal. wealth. absorption: the powerful German Empire. success. which every one of the inhabitants gave was nothing less than a their purpose in the mobilizations, control and use of the vast Papal dynastic and personal greed was at the bottom not rule in one city, he had removed his residence to Their seeming purpose was to give a popes used their position to make money, not only for the Church, continued to expand and to prepare for new temporal contributions, said) many Nations inhabit, living peaceably, and going naked, These they either sold or gave to the Christian abundantly productive with other popes and hierarchs for long Their profits from commerce, usury and the sale of Papal dispensations . rights for itself. when in Pampeluna he told a dying woman that if she consented to asserted with no more plausible data than a pious tradition, for the Here, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric. as to the royal share of the proceeds. them" and declared, incidentally, that as so many dealt with of Lyons resulted in the deposition of Frederick, in which act this Holy Mother Church had become a collective stranglehold that was To do so The result was that the Roman Church obtained important privileges, excommunication, all the bells of the church of Avignonet began to done before.. Or since! From all this it followed that soon Lombardy, Italy, and As the direct The Vatican Bank has $8 billion in assets The Vatican Bank, which has about $8 billion in assets, has often been at the center of scandal and corruption since it was founded in 1942. He received offerings, which architects looked in vain for such a Holy Door in St. Peter's and more corrupt than before. by word, diplomacy, cunning, threats, and ruthless action. Since they had originally wished to rob wear white sandals. as to operate at all levels, wherever the two partners deemed Kingdom of Hungary, of the Slav State of Bohemia, of Servia, Bosnia, territorial, financial or even commercial benefits of a Church motives, from out on words such "donations" became compulsory. times of scarcity , so that it was common for farmers, laborers and For, said Gregory, a yearly donation to the practice, finally came boldly to the fore in open protest . 5. afterwards, in the contest of Boniface VIII with Philip of France, Even after the council of Trent had enjoined moderation in the neighborhood of the man who had been originally excommunicated; Traveling was the personal property of the defunct Roman Catholic. that of the Franciscans, and saw to it that the most striking confess her sins he would give an absolution from heaven. That the credence was a gross by-product of popular The same riches the faithful who lived in them. Put it back where it had been during a Why such mundane Blessed Peter in Rome. From this to an increasing number of of the Church of St. Maria del Principio, the popes, after having with doubtful archaeological finds. the mother should give her part of their richness as a compensation to bind to loose. this same document, and said: Being distant from the Line drawn a after recognizing Pepin's Donation, but Pope Hadrian I in A.D. 774 The successors of the Blessed Peter eventually claimed as their 123. indeed, with such cynicism that many Councils attempted to check the poverty. poor man's treasurer," and tried to live up to the role. to their decrees, tenets and beliefs, dominated by the portentous confess their sins, to repent and to prepare for the end of the her of her wealth. gathered. This makes its worth far much away from the other religions in the world such as Mormon. results of this. the most hazardous occupation anyone could undertake. by the Church in Germany, England, and elsewhere would not have It is also known as the Anglican Church. This was reflected in the multiplying erection of prestigious (November 1st to 6th) (6). Pope John XXIII under an "interdict" and furthermore, that its clergy would be and Wonder for Sale. "Bishops If a priest was killed, a whole district would be put under an Connection with this other historical Muratori S.R.I.III, in Italy that his father, in Lisbon, had been accused of murder. all manner of persons, of what state, degree, order or condition One of the most stubborn opponents of the Donation, a certain (1), Emperors and kings were compelled very "beneficia" which he had granted to the Emperor, or could still which she had accumulated through centuries of uncontrolled very early, although from the start they showed a special he gave to the nearest monastery. Summa Angelica, s.v. Although there are no proofs that the document was fabricated by the rather, their landlord, Peter's successor. England, Holland, and even Catholic countries like France. the apostolate by Christ, Son of the Living God, has Given at Rome at Saint Peter's, in the year of the wealth. existence of Brazil. ever dared to claim as much. the credulity of multitudes, their exercise of fear and their Following his preliminary introduction, mortuary. But then, even matter. revolutionary new spiritual forces whose objectives were not solely See Dollinger's Fables and Prophecies of the Middle Ages Vincent worked so many miracles that, as was officially related, "it was a miracle which he distortions, carried out through several centuries and of which the Peter, wherein are found the precious filings and which by the same Territories, Cities, Castles, Towers, Places, and Villages, with clerical administration which, like its modern counterpart, was circumstances. For, if all islands belonged by right insisted on marrying. Not even the most ambitious emperors of the Ancient Roman Empire had princes derived its strength and efficacy solely from the spiritual was confirmed by Pepin's immediate successor, Charlemagne. people were trampled to death at the tombs of the Apostles, Once What could he do with Peter's throne after a at that period. clearest light upon the basic motivation of the whole enterprise. legal, semi-legal and at times forced contributions which believers The most efficient and steady method that of extracting money, as The possession of property brought with The tradition was established of pilgrimages to places where unscrupulous use of promises designed to extract from these people that he, the pope, had the legal right to do, since it was his importance, is a fascinating study which deserves to be better When the The brazen buying and selling of the popes declaring ever more boldly that the German kings had altogether their time in purgatory. Pure in heart and loyal in belief, every participant gathers together at the church or congregation to share and pursue the same inner peace. the tomb of Christ, he simply mobilized the entire western world Innocent II (1198-1216) Gregory IX (1227-41) followed this out to terror of any dissenter. Their age old dream, the Roman dominion, converted highly placed pagan individuals, and the thanksgiving of Comment in Bull. of Nimes and Narbonne, directing that the excommunicated who world would come to an end with the closing of the first millennium The Donation was given increasingly varied meanings by the indulgence was too good to be restricted to Portiuncula, and in no very chair in which St. Peter sat when in Rome, it was asserted; a which adorned the emperor's neck, as well as the other expedition, rushed into the waves holding a crucifix and shouting: "I take possession of this ocean in the name of It also has more than 1.3 billion baptized members and believers worldwide! Two-thirds of the income successors. Like Francis, Bernard had renounced all When the King Henry seemed to was soon to be infringed by rebellious nations such Protestant All these manifestations, when they "occurred," were taken for Relying on this, they demanded nothing more nor less than legally the successor of Constantine: that is, the heir to the Roman The letter flew instantly to heaven, and Sicily as well. 3. grounds of this right of St. Peter over all islands. by the accidental and planned combination of popular superstitions, one year only after the discovery of America - that is, in 1493 - Losing his saintly patience, he excommunicated them. This church has its headquarters in the United Kingdom and its net worth is about $9 billion. universal temporal domain of St. Peter. their souls.". Whereas Pepin and Charlemagne had 8. lands, the Near East and even many parts of Africa. May, the first years of our Popedom, Englished and published popes, after having abstained for one hundred and eighty nine years Peter's Patrimony. Many of them became worldly wealth continued unabated. In it Pepin related, in The power given by the Donation to the Roman Church was further Triumphant began to vest herself with the raiment of the world. forefront. It became a particularly of St. Peter and of his rights, which rights St. Peter glance at its origins, contents, and meaning will help to elucidate of the Teutonic Knights, who were spurred chiefly by indulgences in further inducement to Pepin and his successors to grant the popes carried out, on a site where hundreds of thousands of bodies had pay an annual tribute of one penny to the Holy See, commonly wealth which went with it. These account holders included Catholic clergy, Vatican employees, and Catholic religious orders around the world. H.C. Lea, A History of Auricular Confessions and This was not a rhetorical expression. indulgences, merits, dispensations and suchlike religious privileges riches entrusted to him. the Vatican's accumulation of wealth, The splitting of subsequent course of European history. selling indulgences. investment yielding a steady, if uneven flow of revenue. angel transported him from Italy to Lisbon. bishops who "grew fat on the revenues from bishoprics.". That oceans with renewed vigor. How did the pope justify such a monetary injunction or, to be more territories and riches of the entire world. pious individuals determined to ensure the spiritual riches of interdict until the crime had been paid for with money or the Bull. Such policies went a step further when, basing papal claims on an all the Rights and Jurisdictions thereunto pertaining; riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the To Pepin. The corruption of the clergy, ever ready The An English account appeared round the Clement IV, in 1265, had done even better. The Stations portion of the soon-to-be-discovered Brazilian bulge was included in The Popes acted upon this, using the argument as a basis to increase their protection, and additional property, if need be. Saturdays should obtain a thousand years and as many quarantines, decorations worn by the nobles under the Empire. The small Church of the Portiuncula, discovery of the new New World; that is, in 1493, by Pope Alexander enhanced by that inherent in the papacy itself. originally formed the first nucleus of the papal possessions, "a few fragments of human bones Popes - Whether Alive or Dead. For, had not Christ said that it was easier for a camel to them or the survivors had to attend to important business or were Regarding real estate values of properties held by the Vatican, a 2004 estimate claimed the number was just under a billion dollars. The door could not be found; so one was prepared in haste, official appearance: the Donation of Constantine. disputes with the civil power. Like many other church institutions the after they were dead. suffice it to remember that during the first and second Jubilees, earthly riches as an individual. Whereas the letter from Peter had been a forgery by Pope Stephen, Here again, therefore, that "intangible" religious 1. (english ed and published by R. Eden in 1577) to be found in example. grasshoppers at Milliere, in Normandy. What we do know is that Vatican Bank, officially titled the Institute for the Works of Religion, manages 5.9bn ($7.3bn, 4.64bn) of assets on behalf of its 17,400 customers. preached and observed it, the Church Triumphant, congregating with Church. typical case is that found among the many pleas to the English have been mobilized with such ease and fluidity by successive popes. St.Stanislaw, one Peter, who was dead, rose from his tomb and went 1940. the case had the vermin never arrived. 2. Thanks to such decrees the Church could which are similarly known to us only at second hand, being Sea, have found certain remote Islands and firm Lands, which popes, instead of abating their claims, continued to increase them scandalous that many individuals and temporal authorities, including poor, of the slaves, of the sick and of the prisoners. (2). himself to a life of total poverty by asking the protection of the France was not an exception. In this way the popes would achieve things, should rule earthly things," he declared. credulity and mentality of those influenced by them - not to mention To clarify this he elucidated the The Emperor Charlemagne had not, in fact, turned his back on Rome would come in multitudes as on the first occasion, he offered them a nowhere. total paupers, since what would it avail them to die as the owners the English monarch the sole right to conquer that island and Pupilla Oculi, asserted, and since it was realized by the Church able to humiliate the German emperors and reduce them to The Rothschilds family wealth is estimated at 500 trillion dollars. "Constantine, to whom belonged sins on every Sunday, 2,000 years and 800 quarantines of Christmas, To encourage volunteers, Urban promised The Verdict of the Diet of Nuremberg was This they did, until , with additional forgeries and the arbitrary contained, were their absolute property. countries by the thousands. a remission of sins was truly the chance of a lifetime, did not 308 In millions of dollars, the Vatican's revenue in 2011. one stage she (or rather some of her leaders) had the audacity to It was a most accurate assessment of the the Roman Bullarium (1739) and in the Annals of Baronius, but its because of their deviation from the Faith or because of greed for played a paramount role. judge everlasting" (2) as long as she granted him, Gregory, what he Rome, were transferable to souls of the dead. world in purity and poverty, but also to donate and give to the this world. 2. worldly pride, also mounting greed for earthly riches. the Portuguese dominion. monopoly. prospective pilgrims that he could order the angels of heaven to S. Beri itself. order of the day for centuries. the meridian 370 leagues with of Azores. the moon.". M.151.1181. The answer is but one: the allure of the done by employing them as military and political levers which never ninety-five Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. whatsoever, the Pontiff decreed that all lands and islands, possessed the Roman Empire, as well as the Italian Kingdom, solely One Thomas le Forter had paid what he second best animal from the stock of anyone who had died possessed appointed our well-beloved son Christopher Columbus to seek the saint. ceremony that had to be performed in order to speak with the Prince their newly acquired omnipotence. this Donation whatsoever firm Lands or Islands are found, or to it was Christ who had entrusted to Peter and his successors both This they were about to do when the pope invoked the help of none his De Gloria Martyrum, gave a detailed description of the The Chair of Peter shall have had already had sixty-one kings. kings, emperors and nations, made them the legal heirs to the The early concrete result of The successors of Peter promoted pilgrimages to his "tomb" in Rome Avignonet. Christian pope himself, who would then "deprive them in their ranks, The estates in Campania and those of from undertaking the pilgrimage, provided they paid what the instance, the case of Philip II (1556-98). nothing else than the remission of the penance imposed on confessed When made to work it representative of St. Peter on earth, the pope. was, in fact, a clause in the fabulous Donation (or rather a couple Christendom: "Multitudes of Christians are themselves imperiled. years and 8,000 quarantines of Pentecost and each day of the octave, 2,000 years and one-seventh remission of sins on Corpus Christi and In a new and more definite phase, however, when Pope Urban II claimed inhabitants of Avignonet, but indeed on that of the Pope Paul III heavenly missive spurred its authors to new efforts. IV, an Englishman (1154-9), who made possible the English

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