Celebrating Luther, who led church revolution.(Travel)

The Washington Times | April 7, 1996| | Copyright

WITTENBERG, Germany - In the Martin Luther House Museum, an ironbound box with a slit in the top and a verse tells it all:

As soon as the coin in the coffer rings

The soul from purgatory springs.

The jingle was written and recited by a hard-selling monk from Rome, and the commodity was salvation. For Martin Luther, doctor of theology and professor at the University of Wittenberg, it represented all that needed changing in the Roman Church, less solicitation for the indulgences than metaphorical last straw.

This year, all Germany is ...

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