Normally, people just had skills, but with the holy energy, this changed as those who could use it became a different class all together, and their individual value became unimaginable.
Of course, as anyone would think, the church got too stingy with these people who could harness the energy, and began gathering too much power because of this. If the government hadn't given away just a palm size of the rock to the church and kept the remaining that was at least the size of a bucket, that would be all for them. There were others who emerged that could also do more than one or three skills and were also considered to be some kind of magicians, but these people were extremely few, and most of them refused to work with the government.