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He wa born into a very strict family that was Catholic. They intended for him to have a career in law but he became a monk and a theology professor instead of a lawer.
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While traveling back to the university from his parents' home, Luther was caught in a really bad thunderstorm. Almost hit by some lightening, he cried to patron saint of miners: "Help me, St. Anne, and I'll become a monk!" Luther escaped unharmed, and being true to his word, entered a monastery within a month.
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At age 30 Martin Luther becomes a priest.
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Martin Luther nails the 95 theses to the castle church door. He wrote these theses because he thought that paying for indulgences so that they didn't have to repent of their sins was wrong. Out of his frustration he wrote all 95 of them.
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Martin Luther burns the Exsurge Domine. He also burnt other papal documents, books of the church law and books written by his enemies under what is now known as the Luther oak.
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Martin Luther translates the bible into German. I do not know the the exact day he did it but he did finish it in September of 1522.
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Luther married Katharine Von Bora who was a former nun. They had six children.
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Martin Luther uses the German Mass to make it more convinient to teach the public so they could clearly understand the messages of God.
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Martin Luther died of natural causes.
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Martin Luther's grave gets open and his remains were still there.
