The Thunderstorm on the Road to Erfurt
On July 2, 1505, a twenty-one-year-old law student named Martin Luther was walking back to the University of Erfurt when a violent thunderstorm overtook him...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 29.
On July 2, 1505, a twenty-one-year-old law student named Martin Luther was walking back to the University of Erfurt when a violent thunderstorm overtook him near the village of Stotternheim. Lightning struck so close that it threw him to the ground. Terrified, face-down in the mud, Luther cried out, "Help me, Saint Anna! I will become a monk!" His friends thought it was panic talking.…
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