October 16, 1520: The Wild Boar [Rebroadcast]
Luther: In Real Time
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Martin luther received an official letter from the pope denouncing his teaching and giving him 60 days to recant. Pope leo had completed a drauft of the letter while he was at his ting lodge preparing to hunt wild boar four months earlier. Luther himself, lending some credence to the pope's description of him as a wild boar, is defiant. They were already burning luther's books. How long before they burned him?
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