“For out of this [the granting of a privilege] we shall merit the chief reward from establishing everything in God. [Latin: ex hoc enim potissimum præmium a conditione omnium Deo promerebimur.]”Pope John XI, Privilegium Pro Monasterio Cluniacensi, 931 A.D. (My translation of Migne's Latin. The popes had the ability to establish privileges to monasteries, etc. as an indulgence and through extending these mercies they hoped to gain mercy and the intercession of these religious. Hence he says just before “benevola compassione pia”, i.e. “by a benevolent pious compassion...”)