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Thomas Cajetan

Dominican cardinal who examined Luther at Augsburg in October 1518 as the pope's legate.

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Cajetan was the legate who examined Martin Luther at Augsburg in 1518. He later sat on the commission that drafted Exsurge Domine.

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Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg Oct 1518 papal legate who examined Luther Scholarship & press 1

Exsurge Domine 1520 member of the commission that drafted the bull Scholarship & press 2

Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg the pope's legate, told to bring Luther before him Primary record 3

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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521 (the editors' notes), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913. Scholarship & press
In 1518 he was sent as legate to the Diet of Augsburg, and here saw Luther
The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911. Scholarship & press
appointed a third commission, of Cajetan, Eck, Accolti, and the Spanish Augustinian Johannes, with orders to draft a bull for this purpose
Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521, translated by Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs (the letters), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913. Primary record
since the affair has become notorious and inexcusable and has lasted long, to force and compel the said Martin, now declared to be a heretic by the said auditor, to appear personally before you

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