Pope Leo X was born December 11‚ 1475.Leo X is better known as Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici. Leo X was elected Pope in 1531. His turn as papacy lasted until 1521. Leo X is best remembered granting selfish and pleasure-loving behaviors. The new pope was the personification of Renaissance ideals. Sadly ‚ Pope died in 1521. Pope Leo X died in Rome‚Italy. His cause of death was pneumonia. Popes remains were buried at Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Church in Rome‚ Italy. He acquires the mannerisms and
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Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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Pope Leo X was originally Cardinal de’ Medici. He was the second son of Lorenzo de’ Medici. He made Rome a cultural centre and strong in political power.but he depleted the papal treasury‚ and‚ by failing to take the developing Reformation seriously‚ he contributed to the downfall of the Western church. He was put on a religious life so he received the tonsure. This was a ceremony involving the cutting of hair from his head that indicates a change of status. Leo X was not only the head of the Christian
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The idea of reformation is people making changes for the better for them and for others. Martin Luther Is the founder of reformation in Germany. He created a schism between between catholics and new lutherans Which created conflict because the pope didn’t like losing followers. In 1517 Martin Luther began his process of reformation by nailing his 95 theses to the door of a church. The catholic church was powerful because it had been built up over centuries and relied on ignorance and superstition
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name was Martin Luther‚ and his reforms improved the lives of European Christian’s by standing up to the corrupt Catholic church and promoting ideas that resulted in new freedoms. The Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther was a long time coming due to how corrupt the Catholic church had become. People all over Europe were hoping‚ even praying for reforms as they “sought to live pious lives despite the poor example
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Martin Luther was from a German state called Saxony. Luther became an Augustinian monk even though it was against his father’s wishes. Luther had written a document that he called the “95 Theses”. These were 95 statements that spoke about all the indulgences‚ and how that were wrong. Luther had pinned the “95 Theses” to a church door in Wittenberg‚ and he also mailed a copy to his archbishop. Martin Luther intentions were absolutely pure when he posted the “95 Theses” on the church door in Wittenberg
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Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Martin Luther’s 95 theses inspired a reform movement‚ set in motion a Catholic Church counter reformation and changed politics‚ economy‚ and society with its effects still being felt today. Martin Luther’s challenge of the Pope’s authority to grant indulgences was the first step in a reformation movement that opened people’s eyes to the corruption and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church at the time. Martin Luther’s theses also ushered in the era of having a personal relationship
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Martin Luther wanted to bring to light the truth of the Catholic Church. In 1517‚ Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral in Wittenberg‚ Germany for all to see (). He wrote them in Latin‚ so only the educated could read it and debate him. Luther did not want the ordinary man to get the idea because it was not intended to be a glamorized document. To Luther‚ faith came to those whom God chose. In Thesis 2‚ Luther explains how only God can grant salvation‚ not
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Martin Luther was a German theologian who in 1517 published his ideologies in a document entitled ‘The 95 Theses’. His aim was to reform the Catholic Church and from 1517 to 1521‚ he questioned a range of aspects of the dogma of the Catholic Church‚ which was a significant challenge. During the years the development of his ideas progressed through many different elements‚ these include his three pamphlets he published in 1520 and the debates with Cardinal Cajetan and Johann Eck. Along with these
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October 31‚ 1517‚ Martin Luther posted ninety-five theses on the door of a Catholic church in Wittenberg. He also wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz regarding the sales of indulgences. Luther was against these sales of indulgences. Indulgences is the money that can be paid to the church so that a sinner spends less time in purgatory. It is said that people go to purgatory to work off their sins after they have died so they can still go to heaven. Luther’s ninety-five theses protested the sales
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