Two words for today:
Martin and Luther.
This day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses on the church door in protest of various heretical practices of the Catholic church. His actions that day started a major reformation in the church.
Happy Reformation day.
posted by GravyGal @ Monday, October 31, 2005
8 comments
8 Comments:
Happy (late) Reformation Day to you too!!! :)
Glad you hear you enjoyed the post... ;) It was too much fun to write up, really. :) haha...
See ya Friday~!!!!!! :)
thats kinda cool...i didn't know that. =)
Thank you so much my most informed friend! That's great.
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Check it out.
Happy Reformation Day! I can't wait to come see you for the party this weekend. It'll be fun!
Hmmm... You ought to try to make that an official holiday. Not that the Catholics would be pleased.
I am only commenting because Emily is standing next to me and I am hazing her for not updating her blog.
zzzzzzzzzz, Emily.
(love you anyway)
So are you gonna post this month, or what?
:)
Perhaps everybody knows this already, but Luther was at that time a dedicated catholic. He believed in the Pope's headship of the church and his right to issue indulgences; the thing that Luther could not stand was the selling of these indulgences for obviously greedy purposes. Therefore, he wrote his 95 theses and nailed them to the door. Did he intend to spark a reformation? No, he intended to enter into scholarly debate with other monks et al.
*this has been your daily piece*
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