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What did medieval clergy do?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The exact same thing that clergy have always done: they celebrated the seven sacraments, they prayed the Divine Office, they counseled people, they taught Catechism, prepared sermons, baptized babies, married people, and buried them.

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