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From Escaped Nuns to a Knight in Disguise, 10 Facts About the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church held power across much of Western Europe.
Mary louise roberts biography of martin luther
With a population that was largely illiterate and a Bible written in Latin, the church and its representatives—priests, bishops and the pope—acted as the sole intermediary between humankind and God. But on October 31, 1517, a monk named Martin Luther inadvertently launched a revolution.
Although popular legend holds that he nailed his 95 Theses into the church door at Wittenberg, Luther himself disputed that notion, writes Eric Metaxas in Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World.
Instead, Luther sent a letter to the Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz on that date, writing that he was dismayed at the selling of indulgences (payments parishioners made to the church to be forgiven of their sins).
At the same time, Luther had written the 95 Theses in Latin, and in the following da