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Exsurge Domine

Pope Leo X's bull of 15 June 1520 that listed forty-one statements of Luther's as errors and gave him sixty days to recant.

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15 Jun 1520
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Q1259987

The bull of Pope Leo X against Martin Luther, drafted by a commission that included Thomas Cajetan and Johann Eck.

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  • Thomas Cajetan 1520 member of the commission that drafted the bull Scholarship & press 1
  • Johann Eck 1520 supplied most of the theological material for the bull Scholarship & press 1

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  1. 1520 Thomas Cajetan developed Exsurge Domine
  2. 1520 Johann Eck developed Exsurge Domine
  3. 15 Jun 1520 Exsurge Domine
  4. 15 Jun 1520 Pope Leo X authored Exsurge Domine
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  1. 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
    the theological material was largely supplied by Eck
    the bull was ratified and signed by Leo at his hunting-lodge at Magliana on June 15
  2. Luther and Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms (1521): Luther's declaration, the emperor's response and the Edict of Worms, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington), 1521. Primary record
    any books of the aforesaid Martin Luther, condemned by our holy father the Pope as aforesaid
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