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Showing posts with label Religion Protestant Reformation. Show all posts
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Friday, October 31, 2014

This Day in History - October 31, 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses that began the Protestant Revolution

October 31: General Interest

1517: Martin Luther posts 95 theses 

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-day-in-history-october-31-1517.html

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation... read more 

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On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. 


In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called "indulgences"—for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pope Leo X, was in the midst of a major fundraising campaign in Germany to finance the renovation of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins...

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history?et_cid=67002266&et_rid=704749232&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history
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