On October 31 1517 wrote to his bishop, Albert of Mainz. Protesting the sale of indulgence.
In 1517 the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther translation of the Bible also helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation.
Luther was a promising law student until 1505, when he underwent a religious conversion after being struck by lightning, crying at the time, “Help, St. Anne, I will become a monk.” He later joined the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine.
