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The Peter's indulgence

The indulgence for the building of St. Peter's in Rome that Pope Leo X granted in 1515 and that was preached in Germany under Archbishop Albert's name.

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1515
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St. Peter's indulgence

The indulgence was granted by Pope Leo X and preached for Albert of Brandenburg by Johann Tetzel. It is the reason Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses.

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  • Pope Leo X 1515 granted the indulgence for eight years Scholarship & press 1
  • Albert of Brandenburg 1517 archbishop under whose name it was preached Scholarship & press 23
  • Johann Tetzel 1517 preacher of the indulgence for Archbishop Albert Scholarship & press 1

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  • Pope Leo X granted it for eight years Scholarship & press 1
  • Albert of Brandenburg archbishop under whose name it was preached Scholarship & press 2
  • Johann Tetzel preacher of the indulgence, 1517 Scholarship & press 1
  • Jüterbog people from Wittenberg travelled here to buy it Scholarship & press 4
  • Martin Luther began to preach against buying it Scholarship & press 4

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  1. 1515 The Peter's indulgence
  2. 1515 Pope Leo X intervened in The Peter's indulgence
  3. 1517 Albert of Brandenburg intervened in The Peter's indulgence
  4. 1517 Johann Tetzel intervened in The Peter's indulgence
Proof 5 sources
  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
    Pope Leo X, in August, 1515, granted an indulgence sale for eight years.
    In 1516 he was preacher of indulgences for Arcimboldi, and the following year for Albert of Mayence.
  2. The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911. Scholarship & press
    Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are hawked about under your illustrious sanction.
  3. Albrecht of Brandenburg as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1544), editors' introduction, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington). Scholarship & press
    Albrecht recruited Johann Tetzel to sell the indulgences that prompted Martin Luther to pen his 95 Theses in 1517.
  4. Sources for and against the Posting of the Ninety-Five Theses, by Volker Leppin and Timothy J. Wengert, Lutheran Quarterly 29 (2015), pp. 373-398 (Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen repository), 2015. Scholarship & press
    Now, when many people from Wittenberg went to Jüterbog and Zerbst for indulgences
    I began to preach very gently that one could probably do something better and more reliable than purchasing indulgences.
  5. Preaching Future Security: Johann Tetzel, Sermon on Indulgences (c. 1517), editors' introduction, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington). Scholarship & press
    In 1517, Tetzel preached a great indulgence under the sponsorship of many German churchmen, princes, and urban regimes
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