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Martin Luther was born
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HIs life
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Martin Luther became a monk.
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He taught scripture at the University of Wittenberg in a German State of Saxony. He was awarded his Doctor of Theology
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He decided to take a public stand against the actions of a Friar named Johann Tetzel
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Pope Leo X issued a decree threatening Luther with excommunication unless he took back his statements.
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Luther didnt take back his words, instead his students gathered around a bonfire and burned the Popes decree. He was later EXCOMMUNICATED.
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Charles V summoned Luther to the towns of worms to stand trial and was told to take back his statements, he STILL refused.
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Luther returned to Witenberg, there he discoverd that many of his ideas have already been put into practice.
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When Luther returned to Wittenberg, he discovered his ideas were already out into practice. Instead of continuing to seek reforms in the Catholic Church, Luther and his followers had become a serperate religious group called the Lutherns.
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Luther had published his German translation of the New Testament.
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Martin Luther married Katharine Von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from Nimbschen Cistercian Covent.
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German peasants, excited by reformers, talk of Christian freedom demanded an end to serfdom. Bands of angry peasants went about the countryside raiding monastaries, pillaging, and burning. This horrified Luther
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Luther wrote a pamphlet urging the German princes to show peasants no mercy. The princes'armies crushed the revolt, killing as many as 100,000 people. Feeling betrayed, many peasants rejected Luther's religious leadership.
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German princes who remained loyal to the Pope agreed to join forces against Luther's ideas. The princes who supported Luther signed a protest against the agreement. These protesting princes became known as protestants. Eventually, the term Protestants was applied to Christians who belonged to non-Catholic churches.
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Luther and his collaborators completed the translation of the Old Testament, when the whole bible was published.
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Died at the age of 62!
