Popular Piety and the Church’s Spiritual Role

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Indulgences -

• Going on pilgrimage to pray to saint

• Wealthy paid people to go for them

• Decrease time in purgatory

Liturgical year

• Feast/holy days

• Communities gather together

• E.g. Christmas, advent

Lay guilds

• Nobility pay for chapels

• Pay for people to pray for them

• Decrease time in purgatory

• Active during religious festivals/holy days

Seven Sacraments – used…