Life during the European Reformation
My name is Mary Anderson , I lived during the 16th Century, with my parents. Life during this time was every hard and scarey. My parents and I lived in Denmark a city is Europe. My parents were very tense because they never knew when they would have to flee to a safe place. Where we lived was not a safe place at all,because the war between the Protestants and Catholic was still going on. My parents told me stories about how the Prostestants believers were treated and had been killed and troched because they stood up for their Protestant beliefs. I guess you have figured it out by now my family and I are Protestants belivers. My parents sit around the table after dinner ( mother knitting and dad reading his Bible) talking about how there had been serious wars over religious difference prior to my birth. These stories make me shilver and very scared. They told me how a man name Martin Luther wrote a paper called “95 Theses and some how it got published without him agreeing to the publication. The Catholic Church rebelled because the article was an attempt to reform the practices of the Catholic Churchs’ beliefs. This started the wars between the Catholic and the Prostestants. These wars started in the 15hundreds, when my parents were young. They told about how the Pope was not pleased with what Martin Luther wrote and determined not to change any Catholic beliefs or docturines. They told me how the name prostentant came from protesters. I sat very quietly not missing a single word they were saying and also watching their facial expressions. I wrapped my blanket very tight around me as if I was trying to hide from the soldiers so they wouldn’t find me. My parents assured me that they would not let anything happen to me.
They talked about how The German Protestants rebelled against the Catholic, holy Empire so they could keep