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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Luther |
 | | On Epiphany (6 January, 1505), he was advanced to the master's degree, being second among seventeen applicants. |
 | | A book that helped to depopulate the sanctuary and monastery in Germany, one that Luther himself confessed to be his most unassailable pronouncement, one that Melancthon hailed as a work of rare learning, and which many Reformation specialists pronounce, both as to contents and results, his most important work, had its origin in the Wartburg. |
 | | More than 1000 monasteries and castles were levelled to the ground, hundreds of villages were laid in ashes, the harvests of the nation were destroyed, and 100,000 killed. |
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