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As Passion obsession developed, so did indulgences, which reduced one's punishment for sins. In the fifteenth century, people who prayed to Christ's body could earn 300 days per limb. Thomas à Kempis, whose simple writings helped shape late-medieval piety, penned fourteen separate prayers to Christ's various body parts.

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