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Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg

The hearing in October 1518 at which Cardinal Cajetan, the pope's legate, questioned Luther at the imperial diet in Augsburg.

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Oct 1518

Thomas Cajetan questioned Martin Luther at Augsburg in October 1518 on the pope’s orders.

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  • Thomas Cajetan Oct 1518 papal legate who examined Luther Scholarship & press 1

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  • Martin Luther questioned about two of his statements; refused to recant Primary record 2
  • Thomas Cajetan the pope's legate, told to bring Luther before him Primary record 2

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  1. Oct 1518 Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg
  2. Oct 1518 Thomas Cajetan intervened in Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg
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  1. 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
  2. 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
    For three days my affair has been in a hard case
    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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