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On this date in 1521, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther, its most successful heretic, four years after Luther "nailed" his 95 theses protesting the Church's sale of indulgences. He was able to avoid the punishment of many heretics shown in this image from the Chronicle of Ulrich of Reichental, in which another early protestant reformer, John Hus, is burned at the stake in 1415.