How much is he charging to walk thru?
I wonder if there's some kind of display in the Basilica that says to enjoy the building because the funding of this building through indulgences led to the largest schism in the RCC's history (Protestant Reformation).
Pope Leo X on March 15, 1517 regarding indulgences:absolve you ...from all thy sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they be...and remit to you all punishment which you deserve in purgatory on their account and I restore you...to the innocence and purity which you possessed at baptism; so that when you die the gates of punishment shall be shut... and if you shall not die at present, this grace shall remain in full force when you are at the point of death