{"id":862,"date":"2013-01-16T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/?p=862"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T08:16:54","slug":"man-finally-stops-paying-for-655-year-old-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/man-finally-stops-paying-for-655-year-old-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Finally Stops Paying For 655-Year-Old Crime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-863\" alt=\"candle-light1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1-395x316.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/radio\/files\/2013\/01\/candle-light1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In Geneva, Switzerland, a court has finally wiped out an annual debt that farmers have had to pay the Catholic Church to atone for a crime that happened 655 YEARS AGO! The court ruled that the current farm owner no longer has to pay 70 Swiss francs ($76) each year because Swiss mortgage reforms in the mid-19th century made the practice invalid. The court sided with the landowner in a dispute with the church after he refused to make the annual payment for oil and candles. The payments had been a tradition since 1357, when a man named Konrad Mueller killed a man named Heinrich Stucki. To atone, Mueller promised to always pay to keep an eternal lamp lit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>What I find amazing is that the Swiss Catholic Church actually went to court over $76 bucks and somehow felt they were in the right! Guess they forgot all those verses about forgiveness! (myway.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Geneva, Switzerland, a court has finally wiped out an annual debt that farmers have had to pay the Catholic Church to atone for a crime that happened 655 YEARS AGO! 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