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Basic Christian: blog History Study - The 8 Kingdoms of the World.
{Occult Infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church} (Part 1 of 3) Pope
Leo X: 11 December 1475 - 1 December 1521, born Giovanni di Lorenzo
de' Medici, [made a Cardinal at the age of 13] was the Pope from 1513
to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest (only a deacon) to be
elected Pope - He is known for granting indulgences [selling a type of
sin tithe] for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and
his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses - He was the second son
of Lorenzo de' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine
Republic, and Clarice Orsini - His cousin, Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici,
would later succeed him as Pope Clement VII (1523-34) {As an Occult
infiltrator [concerned with money, power and destroying Christianity]
of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Leo X was primarily involved in
stripping money from Churches and individuals affiliated with Rome
and appropriating the money for his own use. Pope Leo X used four
schemes to gain wealth 1. Starting an overpriced building project
[reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica] by taxing other churches. 2. Began
the selling of 'indulgences' [licenses to sin] to individuals. 3. Initiating
finances for a military Crusade against the Middle-East. 4. The selling
of church offices, positions and even the belongings for huge sums of
money to unqualified an unworthy individuals.}
Spendthrift [primarily on things not directly benefiting or advancing the Christian message and Gospel of Jesus
Christ]: Leo's lively interest in art and literature, to say nothing of his natural liberality, his alleged nepotism, his
political ambitions and necessities, and his immoderate personal luxury, exhausted within two years the hard savings
of [Pope] Julius II, and precipitated a financial crisis from which he never emerged and which was a direct cause of
most of what, from a papal point of view, were calamities of his pontificate. -- He sold cardinals' hats. He sold
membership in the "Knights of Peter". He borrowed large sums from bankers, curials, princes and Jews. The
Venetian ambassador Gradenigo estimated the paying number of offices on Leo's death at 2,150, with a capital value
of nearly 3,000,000 ducats (about 132 million dollars in 2010 dollars) and a yearly income of 328,000 ducats
($14,432,000.00). -- The ordinary income of the pope for the year 1517 had been reckoned at about 580,000 ducats
($2,552,000.00) [around $44 each ducat coin in 2010 dollars], of which 420,000 came from the States of the
Church, 100,000 from annates, and 60,000 from the composition tax instituted by Sixtus IV. These sums, together
with the *considerable amounts accruing from indulgences, jubilees, and special fees, *vanished as quickly as they
were received. Then the pope resorted to pawning palace furniture, table plate, jewels, even statues of the apostles.
Several banking firms and many individual creditors were ruined by the death of Leo.
{Occult Infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church} (Part 2 of 3) Pope
Leo X: Plans for a [power grabbing] Crusade - A truce was to be
proclaimed throughout Christendom; the pope was to be the arbiter of
disputes; the emperor and the king of France were to lead the army;
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