Prior to the printing press, a complete Bible cost about $10,000 to purchase so most people could not afford them. However, the scripture were commonly available to students at the many schools and universities across Christendom. Prior the printing press, spoken dialects varied greatly from town to town and students learned to read and write in Latin.
The Council of Toulouse, 1229 AD Cannon 14 Prohibts laymen from owning any books of the Old or New Testament
This was not common in Europe. Southern France experienced a noxious heresy in the 1200s that discouraged marriage and promoted homosexuality. This group would take selected scriptural quotes out of context, abusing the authority to promote falsehoods.
That’s right the Catholic Church prohibited and killed people just for having copies of the Bible.
When and where?
Not to mention that they kept the masses of people illiterate (unlike the Jews who taught their own to read)
There were once a very large number of monasteries and abbys in almost every town and village across Europe. These institutions provided free schooling for the children of all income groups. In his later writings, Luther lamented the loss of free schooling in Germany that resulted from the confiscation of the monasteries by Protestant princes. Jews of the middle ages were generally wealthy and could afford to hire their own teachers.
After the invention of the printing press things got out .. maybe that’s why they NEEDED their inquisition.
The Inquisition was most often used to detect hostile infiltrators burrowing into positions of power within the Church, such as the homosexual priests and bishops of today.
The fact that the leave those homosexuals priest and bishops in their church and move them around to other churches to victimize others when they get caught tells me everything I need to know about the fruit your church bears.
I’ll leave you with some WORD. (BTW it is highlighted in red in the Bible just so you know who said it )
Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.