• Germany 1483 was filled with disease and plague
• A quarter of the children died before they were five
• The Church was the most powerful force in Germany
• Martin Luther turns the whole Catholic Church over
• February 1456 Wittenberg to eislben was where he traveled
• He told the Catholic Church that they are wrong
• Mantsfels was the town in Germany where he grew up
• The west of Ireland to the tip of Sicily was the empire which he lived in
• He served as an altar boy and sang in his Church's choir
• His father Hans was a copper smelter
• His parents would beat him for doing barely anything
• Erford was the university he went to
• He became a good musician
• In 1505 plague struck Erford
• 3 of his friends were killed by the disease
• He vowed to become a monk because he almost died in a thunder storm
• A monk's life was so hard when it comes down to it
• The Arimite's were the monks he joined
• The monks were encouraged whipping and sleeping without covers
• He one time slept outside and almost died from doing it
• He said it's impossible to please God
• He went to Rome in 1510
• In October of that year he finally reached Rome
• Michaelangelo was painting the Sistine chapel
• Raphael was decorating the Pope's houses
• The Pope has a private fort that was covered with cannons
• He reported that when he was trying to preach at mass a priest said get on with it and another said that the bread will just remain bread
• You could pay a fee to get rid of some time in Purgatory
• He went to confession for 6 hours four times a day
• 1511 he went to Vittenburg in a monastery
• Johann von Stapitz took him under his wing