Martin Luther was one of the greatest contributors to the start of the protestant era, but there was to him that led up to his Reformation theses of the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in the Northern parts of Germany, which at the time was located in the Holy Roman Empire. Luther's Father, worked as a copper smith during Luther's childhood.
Luther was sent to the best schools in Germany at the time. Church in Luther's life played a major role he would attend mass daily and participated by singing in choir and by being an altar boy. In 1501 Luther enrolled into the university in Erfurt where he studied Law with his father's hope of becoming a lawyer to increase family prosperity. Luther earned his degree in law and was looking to become a very successful man, but than than a plague came and swept through Europe the Black Death had killed his closest friends. Luther, in grief of his losses, experienced a supernatural event he was nearly struck by lightning and thought that it must have been a sign from God that he was going down the wrong path. Out of fear of the Lord, Luther immediately dropped out of law school and joined the Augustinian Monks where he studied Theology.
Luther after start of training to become a monk started to feel that he needed to do more to become worthy of Gods salvation. With this feeling he was not worthy Luther constantly would repent and confess his sins; he tried to relive the scourging at the pillar of Jesus by being whipped repeatedly. In October of 1505 he arrived in Rome at the peak of the Renaissance era, he was dazed by workings done Michelangelo's Sistine chapel, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Last Supper. But his amazement did not last long after being in Rome he soon realized that the ways he believed of the churched were not mirrored by the Pope or the holy city either. He objected to Leo X about the selling of indulgences.
After being rejected of his thoughts on October 31, 1517, Luther posted his ninety- five theses of the front door of the church in Wittenberg. Luther then started writing the foundation for his new church in which he had different feelings about the way the Catholic Church was. Luther's foundation only called for two sacraments instead of seven the Lord's Supper and Baptism, he claimed that the other five had been invented by the church, which attacked centuries of tradition. In December 1520 Luther received his Papal Bull of excommunication and then later burned it.
At the Diet of Worms, Charles V emperor of Rome was leader of the , Charles V emperor of Rome was leader of the trial, and Frederick the “Wise” was the only Prince of Germany that stuck with Luther and swore that he would protect him. When staying with Frederick, Luther translated the entire bible into German, so it would be cheaper and easier to afford.
