Edict of Worms

Girolamo Aleandro

Catholic Opponents of the Reformation

The scholar-nuncio who burned Luther’s books in the Netherlands and the Rhineland and drafted the Edict of Worms.

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The Diets of Speyer

November 3, 2026 8 min read Reformation-Era Councils and Diets

The Diets of Speyer (1526 and 1529): the Word of the Lord endures forever, the recess that let each state answer to God, the Protestation that named the Protestants, and Calvin’s plea at Speyer in 1544.

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