Answer:
An indulgence was a remission before God.
Explanation:
In the Roman Catholic Church, indulgences are described as a remission before God for the guilt of sins than have been already forgiven. Or in other words, a way to reduce the amount of punishment for sin after death, since they were expressed in days or years, which represented the equivalent of time to spent in penance
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However, during the middle ages (also called medieval period, which lasted from fall of the Western Roman Empire until the Renaissance) such indulgences become a serious problem due to the abuse of indulgences through commercialization.
