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A pardoner was a person who raised money for the church by selling indulgences and by getting offerings. The reason he was called a pardoner is that the indulgences were for pardoning peoples' sins.

The pardoner prescribed penances for the sins confessed. Technically, the indulgences did not absolve people of sins they had not repented and confessed, so the modern view of people selling some sort of right to commit sins is not quite true.

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The pardoner was a commissioner who was sent out to collect alms for Church projects and provided indulgences as a reward. An indulgence was a pardon for commission of a sin. Greedy pardoners took unreasonable amounts of the alms for their work, and sometimes promised unreasonable rewards, such as salvation for all eternity. Some people bought into the whole thing, and some saw through it. It did not help the Church with its public relations.

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it was his job to travel around and to forgive people of there sins.

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He went around pardoning people

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