What primary resource/first-hand account would be good to propose that indulgences were NOT sold? In the case of St. Peter’s Basilica, what proof is there that the money was for almsgiving, etc.?
What primary resource/first-hand account would be good to propose that indulgences were NOT sold? In the case of St. Peter’s Basilica, what proof is there that the money was for almsgiving, etc.?
Newadvent listed these. You might try googling them…I don’t know if the text is online.
BELLARMINE, De indulgentiis (Cologne, 1600); PASSERINI, De indulgentiis (Rome, 1672); AMORT, De origine…indulgentiarum (Venice, 1738); BOUVIER, Traité dogmatique et pratique des indulgences (Paris, 1855): SCHOOFS, Die Lehre vom kirchl. Ablass (Munster, 1857); GRONE, Der Ablass, seine Gesch. u. Bedeutung (Ratisbon, 1863).
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