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Martin Luther John Calvin indulgences Huldrych Zwingli
How Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation
Hans Holbein the Younger: portrait of Henry VIII
Discover which Roman Catholic practices caused Martin Luther to write his Ninety-five Theses
Luther's bonfire Huldrych Zwingli St. Ignatius of Loyola
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How Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation
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Discover which Roman Catholic practices caused Martin Luther to write his Ninety-five Theses
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Martin Luther
Lithograph of Martin Luther reading in church.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
John Calvin
Portrait of John Calvin by Henriette Rath; in the collection of the Bibliothèque...
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indulgences
The sale of indulgences in church; woodcut from the title page of Luther's pamphlet...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, John R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli, detail of an oil portrait by Hans Asper, 1531; in the Kunstmuseum...
Courtesy of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switz.; photograph, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Hans Holbein the Younger: portrait of Henry VIII
Henry VIII, painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1540.
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Luther's bonfire
Martin Luther burning the papal bull that condemned his various writings, 1520.
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Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli, detail of an oil portrait by Hans Asper, c. 1531; in the Kunstmuseum...
Courtesy of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switz.; photograph, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, was a leader of the Roman Catholic...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
John Knox
John Knox.
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Decet Romanum Pontificem
Title page of Leo X's papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. Published in...
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John Calvin
John Calvin.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-pga-08225)
Europe: predominant religions in the mid-16th century
The religious revolution known as the Reformation swept through Europe in the 16th...
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