Man calls Saints Peter and Paul fools for enduring poverty if rich abbots can reach heaven, too

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Man calls Saints Peter and Paul fools for enduring poverty if rich abbots can reach heaven, too.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee based on church or clergy. · view the constellation · filed as J1263.4.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.

Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning clerical luxury.

Filed beside it

The abbot's luxury and the cardinal's. Cardinal rebukes abbot for living in luxury beyond that of the founder of his order. Abbot asks cardinal if the cardinals of St. Peter traveled in the luxury he does

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