![]() ![]() ![]() We see echoes of those battles today between the different factions of Muslims and have mostly forgotten about our own bloody past.Īlthough he was not the first to speak out on the subject, Martin Luther, a German Monk, is generally credited with firing the first shot and declaring war on his own church by insisting upon every parishioner's right to read the bible in his own language and then going even further, nailing his 95 theses on a church door in Wittenburg.įurther enraged by the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572, those who would later become known as "Protestants" not only did not drop their demands but began to question even more vigorously the Catholic Church's complete dominion over every aspect of their lives. The Fires of Europe is about a nearly forgotten period of world history when ongoing battles raged between Catholics and Protestants to decide which faction of the Christian religion would win the hearts, minds, souls and taxes of the masses. ![]()
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