Luther in Wittenberg: the 500th Anniversary of His Wedding and Other Stages of His Life in the German City

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Now 500 years ago, in the German city of Wittenberg, about 100 kilometers from Berlin, there was an intimate and quick wedding between an Augustinian friar, Martin Luther, and an excavated nun, Catalina de Bora. It was June 13, 1525, eight years after Luther broke with the Catholic Church and turned Wittenberg into the nest of the Protestant Reformation. Every summer that link with a festival is commemorated. Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Luther's wed…