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7 Sacraments

1. Baptism

2. Penance/Confession

3. Holy Eucharist

4. Confirmation

5. Matrimony

6. Last Rights

7. Holy Orders

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Church had Powerful Political Leadership

• Coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III

• 800 A.D.• Papal States- King• Collected Tithe Tax 1/10th of

your wealth





Priests are central to Salvation

• Most people were illiterate and did not know Latin

• Church services in Latin• Faith taught from advice and

teachings of priests• Faith taught from statues, paintings,

stained glass



Final Judgement



Faith based on Fear





Inquisition to fight Heresy





Corruption In Church

• Many priests were illiterate and poorly educated

• Lay Investiture

• Simony

• Good Works=$



Scholasticism:

• faith+reason = fact• Ptolemy adopted by the church• Galileo 1633- interrogated by

Inquisition (house arrest)• Galileo not pardoned and book

banned until 1983

• St Thomas Aquinas– Summa Theologica– Reason was god’s gift. Reason

fits in harmony with faith

Spread of Monasticism



Influences of Monasteries

1. Preserved and copied ancient and classical textsa. Illuminated manuscripts

2. Schools3. Hospitals4. Soup kitchens and orphanages5. Guest houses for weary travelers6. Taught peasants farming and animal husbandry7. Advances in manufacturing and crafts

a. cheese, wine, cloth

Benedictine Order

• 529 founded a monastery in Monte Cassino Italy• Rule of St. Benedict became a model for monastic

communities– Manual work– Meditation– Prayer

• Life of Prayer, Silence, Poverty, Chastity





Franciscan Order

• In 1208 St. Francis of Assisi took a vow of poverty

• Received stigmata• Communicated with

animals• Followers dedicated

to working with the poor





Babylonian Captivity

• Boniface VIII created crisis by asserting his Papal Authority and political supremacy.

• Popes forced to flee Rome in dispute over Papal authority with the King of France.

• Who had power of taxation and courts?

Great Schism

• Two Popes fight for recognition

• Dramatically undercuts the claim to Papal Supremacy

• Strengthens the power of the clergy

• Strengthens Kings

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