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What are some interesting facts about pope Leo X?

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He wrote the indulgences. He did that because he needed money to build St.Peters's Basilica granted the appointment for 24,000 gold pieces. So he sold most of the indulgences & when Martin Luther seen it that's when he became mad & wrote the 95 theses.

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