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When the Bishop of Florence married the Abbess of San Pier Maggiore

Everyone knows, priests, Bishops and nuns can't marry. Yet up until 386 they were granted. The rule of celibacy, often disregarded during the middle ages, became binding only in 1564 with the Council of Trent. However Florence until 1585 He had a particular pantry, because the Bishop had the obligation, at its entrance […]