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Among his intellectual accomplishments during the Renaissance in Spain , he is best known for funding the Complutensian Polyglot Bible , the first polyglot version of the entire Bible , which was Mass produced using Johannes Gutenberg 's printing press. He also edited and published the first printed editions of the missal in and the breviary in of the Mozarabic Rite , and established a chapel with a college of thirteen priests to celebrate the Mozarabic Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharist each day in the Toledo Cathedral.

Cardinal Cisneros' life coincided with, and greatly influenced, a dynamic period in the history of Spain during the reign of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.

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During this time Spain underwent many significant changes, leading it into its prominent role in the Spanish Golden Age — Modern historian John Elliott said as far as any particular policies that can be attributed to Spain's rise, they were those of King Ferdinand and Cardinal Cisneros. In he traveled to Rome to work as a consistorial advocate , where he attracted the notice of Pope Pius II.

He returned to Spain in carrying an "executive" letter from the Pope giving him possession of the first vacant benefice. That turned out to be Uceda. When Cisneros insisted, he was thrown in prison, first at Uceda and afterwards in the fortress of Santorcaz. Not content with the normal lack of comforts for a friar, he voluntarily slept on the bare ground, wore a cilice , doubled his fasts, and generally denied himself with enthusiasm; indeed throughout his whole life, even when at the height of power, his private life was rigorously ascetic.

The post was politically important, for Isabella took counsel from her confessor not only in religious affairs but also matters of state. Isabella's Alhambra Decree , which expelled the Jews from Spain, followed almost immediately upon Cisneros' appointment as her confessor.