sentences:  Honoured with such prerogatives, the Church of Le Puy assumed a sort of primacy in respect to most of the Churches of France, and even of Christendom.This primacy manifested itself practically in a right to beg, established with the authorization of the Holy See, in virtue of which the chapter of Le Puy levied a veritable tax upon almost all the Christian countries to support its hospital of Notre-Dame.In Catalonia this "droit de quête", recognized by the Spanish Crown, was so thoroughly established that the chapter had its collectors permanently installed in that country.