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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2904782, member: 42773&quot;]Here is something I didn&#039;t even know existed, a charity token from St. Lambert&#039;s Cathedral in Liege. Evidently these tokens were bought and contributed to the cathedral, whose priests would then give Requiem Masses for specific deceased loved ones. It was not a scheme of indulgences or anything of the sort, just a way of raising money for the maintenance of the structure, which rivaled the size of the cathedral of Notre Dame. Some are dated, some are not, but they were all minted in the decade of 1680-1690.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]700459[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the cathedral as it stood until 1794, from an old engraving...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]700460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In an incredible act of unbelievable lunacy, French revolutionaries decided that it was a symbol of the power of the Prince-Bishop, and should be demolished. By 1827 it had been completely razed to the ground! Holy Mother of God, people can be stupid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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