In 1505, however, he made a decision that changed the course of his life radically: he decided to enter the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt after a near death experience in a lighting storm.He cried out to Saint Anne for help, promising to enter the monastery if he escaped death. This decision shaped the rest of his life, and his search for a merciful God and His Will to develop the Reformation of the Church. Luther’s reformation of the church began in 1517 with a solid foundation provided by Germ

Martin Luther died in Eisleben,Germany, the town of his birth, in February 1546. By order of the Elector of Saxony Luther was buried in the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

With his translation of the Bible into German, Martin Luther attained a permanent legacy as Father of the Protestant Reformationand and as far as a unification of the German language was concerned.

Luther next attacked the sale of indulgences by the Roman Catholic church.An indulgence was the sale of a remission of the temporal penalty that a priest imposed on penitents as a “ work of satisfaction” for their mortal sins.He responded to sale of indulgences by the posting of the 95 theses on the door of the castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.The 95 theses protested that indulgences actually remitted sins and released the dead from punishment in purgatory. Luther believed that the sale of indulgences seemed to m

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