Dispute over indulgence certificates: “The church actively looks the other way” – Bavaria

It’s about a document and the question of where it is. But basically it’s about something bigger: some talk about a small scandal, others about “delusions”. What’s going on in the small town of Lenting in Upper Bavaria?

A piece of paper with a seal behind glass in a heavy oak frame. It is a certificate of indulgence from the year 1500 that tells of how twelve cardinals wanted to buy their way out of purgatory by giving gifts to the church. An important contemporary document for the place from which the document comes, Lenting in the Eichstätt district. There it hung in the bell tower of the church. For centuries. And now? She’s just gone. And the church? Do everything to complicate investigations.

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