The church's practice of indulgences in the High Middle Ages was ultimately connected with the

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The practice of indulgences involved the remission of the time spent in purgatory, which was a place where souls were believed to be purified before entering heaven. The church offered indulgences as a way to reduce the amount of time a soul would spend in purgatory, and this practice was connected to the church's teachings about the afterlife. It was not directly connected to relics, the doctrine of heaven or hell, the mass, or all of the above.

The Church's Practice of Indulgences in the High Middle Ages