What Is the First Celebrity?

In 1520, Pope Leo X issues a papal bull threatening excommunication unless Luther recanted his beliefs. After a tense trial, Luther steadfastly refuses to recant and is declared an outlaw by the emperor. Frederick the Wise of Saxony organizes a fake kidnapping and spirits Luther away to seclusion in Wartburg Castle. While in luxurious custody, Luther wrote more pamphlets. He began to his work of translating for the first time the Bible into vernacular Germans so that the common people could finally encounter the word.