| Martin
Luther |
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Before Luther,
if you were a Christian, you were Catholic.
The Story
| 1507 (age 23) |
Becomes a Catholic priest. |
| 1517 |
Objects to selling of Indulgences.
Posts his 95 theses on door of Wittenberg church |
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| 1520 |
Publishes pamphlets which
later become Lutheran religion. |
| 1520 |
Faces Inquisition (trial).
Pope orders Luther to recant (take it back) or be excommunicated
(tossed out). Luther publicly burns the order.
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| 1546 |
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