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Here are seven important dates regarding the life Martin Luther and his involvement in the Protestant Reformation that he began. They include the Diet of Worms, the release of the German New Testament, and his death.

Here are seven important dates regarding the life Martin Luther and his involvement in the Protestant Reformation that he began. They include the Diet of Worms, the release of the German New Testament, and his death.

Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.

Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo Andrei Konchalovskys handsomely lensed film about the great Italian artist grapples with how to create divine works amid earthly travails. Manuel Betancourt, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Andrei Konchalovsky With: Alberto Testone, Jakob Diehl, Francesco Gaudiello, Federico Vanni, Glenn Blackhall, Orso Maria Guerrini, Anita Pititto. (Italian dialogue) Running time: Running ...

He was a pleasure loving man, loved the arts, theater, music, all that sort of thing. >> leo x and members of the medici dynasty represent the most glorious aspect of the papacy at the beginning of the 16th century and also its nemesis. they are the initiators of the alliance between the papacy and the arts and the corruption of western christianity altogether. >> leo x celebrates his election with a party in florence. part of the celebration includes a young boy painted in gold. in the middle o...

Church could steer you towards. >> they begin trying to rehabilitation fallen women, sex workers. they show great concern for the poor. eventually they go to rome with this new idea for a new order and they place themselves at the disposition of the pope. >> narrator: ignatius presents the jesuits ideas to pope paul iii as a means of catholic reform. but in 1540, few had challenged the catholic church and remained in the good graces of the pope. >> the church hierarchy was feeling its way forwar...

For a time in england. >> he tore the kingdom apart with his break from rome. >> we have wars of religion within england, we have wars of religion between france and england with france being more loyal to the pope, england more loyal to henry. the entire religious landscape becomes weaponized. >> and then henry viii begins to take the churchs wealth. >> narrator: as head of the church of england, henry viii seizes property that belongs to the catholic church. >> he begins to strip all of the al...

But the popes response is complicated by his political alliances. >> the pope was effectively the prisoner of the emperor charles v, who as it happens was the nephew of queen catherine of england. >> narrator: clement vii does not want to jeopardize his fragile truce with charles v by agreeing to his aunts anullment, but king henry threatens to withdraw all of england from the catholic church if he does not get his way. >> so on the one way, there was the king of england saying, declare my marri...

Tradition of the catholic church. it was seen as an act of disloyalty. to be protestant meant you were loyal to the pope. >> narrator: after luthers defiance of king charles and the pope at the diet of vermes, a hard line is drawn among christians. >> the foundation of the reformation is that the church is the invisible gathering of all of those who confess christ in every time and in every place, and because this is not a temporal group of people theres no way there can be a temporal head of it...

>> if you were the enemy of the church, that would mean you could be called a heretic. so martin luther was putting himself in very dangerous territory now. >> narrator: deep within the vaticans secret archive -- lies the document that split the once-universal catholic church. it has never before been seen on camera. on january 3, 1521, pope leo x issues a papal order ex communicating the german preacher. >> all germany was in uproar, and this was very bad news for the overall ruler of germany, ...