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No, not even the large churches had a Bible. They would have a small track from which to recite the mass and that is it. Martin Luther, even after going through college to become a priest, was not aware that any other versus outside of the small amount to say the messed existed. He came acrossed a Bible in the parish library by accident and did not even know what it was. After reading it extensively he came to realize that it was the Bible and remembered that was forbidden to read, ( a special license had to be obtained to read it) but he declares “I Justified myself to continue to read it because it was in the parish library.” To say the Bible's were in every Church would be a gross overstatement. A person in today society cannot imagine the biblical ignorance of the people in medieval Europe. Martin Luther said that at the time he nailed his Theses to the church door in Germany that he did not know of 12 priest who could have told him who Jesus was.Afraid that if her subjects owned and read Bibles, that they might question some of the Church’s actions and teachings.The Church Council of Toulouse 1229 AD “Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should not be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.”[1]The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon, ruled that: “No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days, so that they may be burned…” [2]Pope Pius IV had a list of the forbidden books compiled and officially prohibited them in the Index of Trent (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) of 1559. This is an excerpt :“Whoever reads or has such a translation in his possession… cannot be absolved from his sins until he has turned in these Bibles…Books in the vernacular dealing with the controversies between Catholics and the heretics of our time are not to be generally permitted, but are to be handled in the same way as Bible translations…”[3]COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE – 1229 A.D. “Canon 14. [ITEM #2] We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; …we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.” [4]The Council of Trent (1545-63 A.D.) also prohibited its use and pronounced a curse upon anyone who would dare oppose this decree. Many popes have issued decrees forbidding Bible reading in the common language of the people, condemning Bible societies and banning its possession and translation under penalty of mortal sin and death. The Roman Catholic Church has openly burned Bibles and those who translated it or promoted its study, reading, and use. (John Hus, 1415 A.D.; William Tyndale, 1536 A.D.) [5]Tyndale wrote that the Church authorities banned translation into the mother tongue “to keep the world still in darkness, to the intent they might sit through vain superstition and false doctrine, to satisfy their filthy lusts, their proud ambition, and insatiable covetousness, and to exalt theirown honour… above God himself.” [6]With Tyndale's translation, later finish by Miles Cloverdale and name the Matthew Bible, came the introduction of Bibles into churches on a regular basis. However this was only by the Protestant Nations. Catholic Nation still outlawed them in the vernacular, and better than 80% of the priests were too illiterate to read the Vulgate. For the English-speaking world it was the Matthew Bible coined “the great Bible” so named because of its size and was paid for by the crown of England, which first found its way into church, and this would have been in the 1560s. For German speaking churches it was translation by Martin Luther in the 1520s and dispersed and paid for by the reformers about the 1550s. In other nations ie Scotland, Switzerland, France, and Hungry Etc it was the Protestant reformers that instituted the Bibles in the churches on a regular basis. Catholic parishes did not follow suit for another 200 years.[1] Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Scolar Press, London, England copyright 1980 by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195[2] The Church Council of Tarragona 1234 AD; 2nd Cannon – Source : D. Lortsch, Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.[3] Source: The Reformation, by Hans J. Hillerbrand, copyright 1964 by SCM Press Ltd and Harper and Row,Inc., Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-15480, pages 474, 475.[4] Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters, Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980[5] -Christian Equippers International, 2941 Lake Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe 96150[6] William Tyndale’s New Testament. Worms (Germany), 1526 British Library C.188.a.17 Copyright © The British Library Board