Question

Indulgences

a. had been banned by the papacy in the sixteenth century due to abuses.
b. were sold by secular authorities to fund wars and voyages of exploration.
c. were viewed by the populace as heretical witchcraft.
d. allowed Christians to purchase merits from those accumulated by saints to relieve the time one spent in purgatory.

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter A.

The Trade in Indulgences or the Sale of Indulgences refers to abuses committed in the granting of indulgences by members of the Catholic Church, the earliest records dating back approximately to the thirteenth century, and persisting until the sixteenth century, when was banished.