believed that even the salvation of the soul and the afterlife had a financial solution. pious christian and financial genius and one of the richest men of his time. to go offshore oil for was incredibly rich the gap was immense if you consider the sum that figure and a consortium stumped up to fund the imperial election of charles the fifth it was more than eight hundred thousand guilders. and ordinary craftsmen would have had to work thirty two thousand years to earn that. girl also made money with the fear of hell. it's terrible torments were omnipresent and for this time the church preached that it had been granted divine powers of remittance to reduce the punishment people would have to suffer for their