Exsurge Domine Condemns Luther
1520
Pope Leo X issued the bull Exsurge Domine, threatening Luther with excommunication if he did not recant forty-one errors within sixty days. Luther publicly burned the bull and a volume of canon law outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. The break with Rome was now irreversible in practice if not yet in canon law.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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