FIRST HOLY YEAR PROVED LUCRATIVE.(RELIGION)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | May 20, 2000 | Copyright

Byline: PEGGY POLK Religion News Service

ROME -- Chroniclers of the day reported that the Jubilee of 1300, the first Holy Year of the Christian era, was so successful the Vatican literally raked in the cash.

Some 200,000 pilgrims flocked to Rome from throughout Europe to pray at the altars of the basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul-without-the-Walls and secure indulgences to remit temporal punishment for their sins.

``And multitudes of people thronged there from all Christianity so that it would appear incredible to those who have not seen it,'' ...

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