In the early 16th century on the eve of the Reformation an anonymously published tract called "Julius Exclusus" became a publishing sensation. The pamphlet was an imagined account of what happened when Pope Julius II, sometimes called "the warrior pope," ascended to Heaven and attempted to enter through the Pearly Gates after addressing St Peter.
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