The Protestant Reformation begins: in Wittenburg, a principality in the “Holy Roman Empire,” Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic priest, nails his “95 Theses of Contention” to the front door of the Palace Church, denying that the Pope is supreme in matters of religion and questioning the papal practice of selling indulgences—allowing the rich to by themselves into heaven. “
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Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage, Volume I: To 1715, fourth edition. (1979; New York and Toronto: Macmillan, 1991), 391.
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