HOW LUTHER BECAME A MONK. Share full article. July 29, 1883. ... "Holy Anne," he cried to the mother of the Virgin, "help me; I will become a monk." View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Later, Luther would say about his life in the cloister, "If ever anyone has ever managed to get into heaven by being a monk, I wanted to do that too." Less than two years after entering the ...

Martin Luther's 95 theses helped spark the Protestant Reformation, a pivotal moment in Christianity's history. ... A lawyer, monk, priest and professor, Luther (1483-1546) ...

Pastor Ken Wendland  By Rev. Ken Wendland About 495 years ago, on October 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk nailed to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany "95 Theses" or complaints concerning ...

“I will become a monk!” The man’s name was Martin Luther. Two weeks later, he walked into an Augustine monastery in Erfurt to fulfill his promise and went on to teach theology in Wittenberg.

An obscure monk, professor of theology and parish priest in backwater Germany in October 1517, Luther became Europe’s first best-selling author and first mass-media celebrity.

One of the world’s first media stars, Luther alone was responsible for one fifth of all works printed in Germany between 1500 and 1530. Richard J. Evans reviews “Martin Luther” by Lyndal Roper.

The protest movement Luther launched 500 years ago revamped not only how Europe worshipped but how it drank. We'd call him the patron saint of beer except, well, he wouldn't like the "saint" part.

Luther, who was born in 1483, vowed to become a monk after a lightning bolt nearly hit him. Later, as a priest, he started speaking out against what he saw as corruption within the Roman Catholic ...

To see a monk's robe like the one Luther would have worn, Luther's own handwriting on letters and Bibles, his 500-year-old pulpit — it brings Luther and his legacy to life, she said.