Martin Luther sends out his Ninety-five Theses
On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther, a friar and professor of theology at Wittenberg, sent a set of ninety-five propositions on indulgences to Albert, Archbishop of Mainz, asking him to rein in the preacher Johann Tetzel, whose sale of indulgences was raising money for the rebuilding of St Peter’s in Rome. Tradition holds that on the same day Luther nailed the theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. Luther meant them as the basis for an academic debate, not a break with the Church. But they were printed and spread across Germany within weeks, the archbishop forwarded them to Rome, and the dispute that followed became the Protestant Reformation.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ninety-five Theses ↗
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