"Sacra sub extrema, si forte requiritis, hora Cur Leo non potuit sumere: vendiderat."
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If by chance you ask why in his last hour Leo wasn't able to take the sacraments: he had sold them.
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Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 - 1 December 1521) was head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in 1521.
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