Did You Know? Spanish and German troops sacked Rome on May 6, 1527. Some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, died fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant’Angelo. LEARN MORE.
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I so wish they would make a movie about this! They could really make it awesome with the right script.
From the Wikipedia article : Nevertheless, Martin Luther commented: “Christ reigns in such a way that the Emperor who persecutes Luther for the Pope is forced to destroy the Pope for Luther” (LW 49:169).
That’s a real big theological statement. Did Luther have some kind of preternatural insight into the Divine Mind? Did he always make bold statements concerning himself in the third person? How can he even begin to justify the statement that the Emperor was “forced to destroy the Pope for Luther”? I guess what happens during the sack of Rome, stays in Rome and Luther don’t play that . . .