User talk:Lucullanius

Help me!
I tried to amend an obvious inaccuracy on the entry on Thomas Harding, the martyr. The writer claimed that priests told people who brought "fagots" [sic] for the heretic's burning would have an indulgence to sin for 40 days! Obviously wrong and a mangling of the principle of Indulgences and the doctrine of Purgatory ( Martin  Luther!!!) I speak  as a Roman Catholic and, for what it's worth, an Oxford MA. I proposed to amend  the spelling mistake and the text as follows: "... they would be granted an Indulgence of 40 days. That is, their stay in Purgatory where Roman Catholics believed  souls must be confined for purification from their sins, before being admitted to Heaven, would be reduced by 40 days". The system wouldn't let me make the these uncontestable changes. Please make them for me.

regards Piers Croke crokepiers@gmail.com

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Lucullanius (talk) 15:14, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, for what it's worth, I totally agree the statement currently in the article is incorrect. However, because of how Wikipedia works, you need a reliable source. In this case that should be easy to find (the statement is so clearly bogus). Just make the change, with a good source and you should be fine. I will watchlist the page. Happy editing. Happy Squirrel (talk) 15:26, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi! That statement is a direct quote from The Book of Martyrs.  I have edited the text to try to make it more clear that it is a quote from the book, and added an inline source.  Feel free to add text after the quote clarifying the errors in Foxe's interpretation of Roman Catholic belief, but please don't change the text of the quotation.  The article is not protection, so you should have no problem editing it. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 15:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)