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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2742621, member: 76194&quot;][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] I forgot to mention El Escorial has a massive royal library, and according to a sign on the door, by Papal Decree, anyone who is late in returning a book would suffer something like 100,000 years in purgatory, and stealing a book was automatically a one-way ticket to hell as well as excommunication. At least if you believe in that stuff from some Pope in the 1500s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shows you just how tight the relationship between Spanish monarchs and the papacy was at the time. King Henry VIII of England couldn&#039;t get the Pope to divorce him, but the Spanish Emperor Charles V could get the Pope to issue a Papal Bull regarding late books at his library.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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