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 The Troubled Church =====


The church in the medieval times were the ones that controlled everything and everyone, the church completely dominated society. At the middle ages time, the church expected people to assist to pilgrimages, a really long trip to a holy place called shrines. At that time it was whispered that if you assist to shrines, God will pardon all your sins and you will go to heaven without stopping at the purgatory. Other people took this journey to the shrines eager to be cured from any ill health that they had been suffering from. There were a lot of shrines in England, but the most admired one was: The tomb of Thomas Becket inside the Canterbury Cathedral. When Thomas Becket was murdered, all the people tried to catch pieces of his clothing with blood, because it was thought that people who got that cloth were perfectly cured form leprosy, blindness, between other diseases. Another popular shrine was Willingham at the city of Norfolk, it was supposed that the glass of milk that was there, was Virgin’s Mary milk. At spring it was supposed that people, who took water from there, were cured from excruciating pain of head and stomach.

BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY Babylonian Captivity consisted in exiling popes form Rome to Avignon, France. This was because the church became under influence of the French monarchy. This event happened after the period of exiling all of the Jews form Babylon. POPE CLEMENT V Pope Clement V was the first French pope in the history of the papacy. Rome has been for centuries the center of the western church but with the pope in Avignon people feared that the system in the church will change and popes by raising taxes made the church´s administration efficiently than what it was before. The Great Schism This event happened because the Romans forced the college of cardinals to elect a Italian pope but when the French pope died another French needed to be at power, with two popes; one Italian and the other French, all the people from Europe will doubt about the pope´s power and did not believed that the pope was sent by god, only one should be the pope and that’s why it is called the great schism.