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Why was St. Teilo’s church built in the 12th Century?
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Why was ST. Teilo's church built in the 12th Century? The role of the church in medieval society was very important. Religion was a very important part of every person's life. Every person in the surrounding area around the church would visit the church every Sunday for a sermon, given in Latin by a priest. All sermons were spoken in Latin, and very few people understood what the priest was saying. Almost every person who went to these sermons was illiterate, so to help them understand what the priest was teaching them about heaven and hell, the church walls would be covered in Doom paintings, these Doom paintings showed what Heaven and Hell were like, In medieval society most of the population was poor and lived hard, wretched lives, and the only thing that showed them that there was abetter life was the church. The church also gave the peasant's hope...
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