17.2: The Pope and the Barbarians
Occult Confessions
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Gregory's Apocrypha
As pope, he responded to the scourges visited on italy by famine, plague and war by rating the church's farm land. He insisted that he not eat until all the poor had been fed. The famines got so bad in his lifetime that rich people were starving because all they had was money. They didn't have food. You cannot eat the money. M deep stuff.
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