elster-gate

Updated: May 28, 2025

I take your Bull, as an emparchmented Lie, and burn it. You will do what you see good next: this is what I do. It was on the 10th of December, 1520, three years after the beginning of the business, that Luther, "with a great concourse of people," took this indignant step of burning the Pope's fire-decree "at the Elster-Gate of Wittenberg."

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History