Halloween or Reformation Day?
For Canadians, October 31 is nothing else but Halloween, also known as All Hallows’ Eve. Would you be stunned to hear that October 31 is remembered as Reformation Day in other parts of the world? In Germany, where the majority of its people are Protestant Christians, we celebrate October 31 as Reformation Day. 502 years ago, a German man named Martin Luther initiated a reformation – by nailing, on the door of a church, a sheet of 95 arguments against, according to him, “misleading” Catholic Christian practices. This caused the…
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