April 17, 1521

This is an important date in the history of the Reformation. Dr. Martin Luther had to attend to the German “Reichstag” (Diet of the realm) in the city of Worms. There was the emperor Charles V with all the electors, priests, bishops, solicitors, professors and other advisors (since the first of January the pope had put him under the ban of the Roman Catholic Church, which outlawed Luther; but he insisted that he wanted to defend his Christian conviction). Here, you see a reproduction of an old...