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Pope Leo X Responds to Luther's "95 Theses"

6/15/1520
First edition of the papal bull Exsurge Domine (1520).

First edition of the papal bull Exsurge Domine (1520).

With the papal bull Exsurge Domine  on June 15, 1520 Pope Leo X warned Martin Luther that he risked excommunication unless he recanted 41 sentences drawn from his writings, including the 95 Theses, within 60 days.

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