On This Day October 31

The papacy was earning a good income by the indulgences system that allowed Christians to purchase remission from penance in purgatory. Appalled at the indulgences system, the Augustinian monk Martin Luther nailed up on the church door at Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, his Ninety-five Theses, (the standard way of raising issues for debate), arguing that a Christian has had a full pardon from God and no need of indulgences. The Protestant Reformation had begun.

1517 Nuremberg printing of the Ninety-five Theses as a placard

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