Catholic and Protestant leaders unite to mark start of Reformation
Archbishop of Canterbury to use service to present joint declaration described as ‘sign of healing after 500 years of division’
Catholic and Protestant leaders will stress their mutual bonds 500 years after the start of the Reformation, a movement which tore apart western Christianity and sparked a string of bloody religious wars in Europe lasting more than a century.
A service in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the date in 1517 on which the German theologian Martin Luther submitted The 95 Theses to the archbishop of Mainz as well as nailing a copy to the door of a church in Wittenburg, lighting the fuse of the Reformation.
from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2hoFyIv
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