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The Breast Milk of Mary and a Twig From the Burning Bush
The pride of Wittenberg Cathedral was Frederick's collection of 19,000 holy relics. If you were to take a pilgrimage to see these objects, you would be granted 1.9 million days of relief from purgatory. It is purgatory as an attempt to fill in a gap created by the newly urbanized social order. People have too much time on their hands and when they start writing to each other, too much ability to compare notes.