Protestation at Speyer
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On 19 April 1529, six princes and representatives of 14 Imperial Free Cities petitioned the Imperial Diet at Speyer against an imperial ban of Martin Luther, as well as the proscription of his works a
The Memorial Church, consecrated in 1904, commemorates the Protestation at Speyer.
The Protesting Speyer, part of the Luther Monument in Worms
"Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Amen." ("Here I stand. I can not otherwise. Amen"), the words of Martin Luther now inscribed in the Memorial Church.
John, Elector of Saxony in the Speyer Memorial Church
Diet of Augsburg
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The diets of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an Imperial City and the residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops, the t
Saxon chancellor Christian Beyer proclaiming the Augsburg Confession in the presence of Emperor Charles V, 1530
Confutatio Augustana and Confessio Augustana being presented; this picture is somewhat ahistorical because a written copy of the Confutatio was never provided by the Catholics; rather they had to go off of stenographers they had brought with them just in case the Catholics wouldn't give them a copy.