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Index's full name is "Index Librorum Prohibitorum", based on a real book with
the same name. It's a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or
lascivious, and banned by the Catholic Church.
[Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum)

Does this book also exist in Index's world, and was she named that by the
Church deliberately? Or did the author just get the name because it sounds
cool?


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Why is Index's full name "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"?


Taken from
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Certain_Magical_Index_characters#Index)

> Her mind has been implanted with the 103,000 magical texts of the Index-
> Librorum-Prohibitorum as she possesses Photographic memory, which makes
> magicians wonder if she really is human because just one grimoire is
> poisonous to the mind, and one is more than enough to kill a person without
> the proper preparative.


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It's based of the real life list, "[Index Librorum
Prohibitorum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum),"
which in English is literally a "list of prohibited books." Index herself is,
in other words, a literal embodiment of these books prohibited by the Roman
Catholic Church by Pope Paul IV.

The list was created to protect the faith and morals of the faithful by
preventing people from reading of immoral books or works there church thought
was heretical. Some of the works even included scientific works by leading
astronomers, like Johannes Kepler, whose ideas were controversial at the time.
The list basically contained the rules set by the Roman Catholic Church
relating to the reading, selling, and censorship of books.


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