bet you didn't know this ... i didn't

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, the majority belonged to protestant denominations. It was on this day, October 31, 1517, that Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the door of Wittenberg Church, thus beginning protestantism. He was summoned to stand trial before the twenty-one year old Emperor Charles V and declared an outlaw. Frederick of Saxony hid him in the Wartburg castle where he translated the New Testament into German. Martin Luther later wrote: "I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth."