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Again Passepoil broke the silence, this time with a question: "Why are we after Louis de Nevers?" Nobody seemed to be able to answer him. Even Staupitz, who was responsible to the others for this gathering of the company, was baffled. He had been told to supply nine swords, and he had supplied them.
"Not even the poorest part of the penance which is called 'satisfaction, but the remission of the poorest part of penance." Letter to Staupitz, below. "It is difficult to withstand the conclution that even in theory indulgences had been declared to be efficacious for the removal of the guilt of sin in the presence of God," Lindsay, History of the Reformation, I, 226.
Luther was reluctant to accept this, and years after he was fond of showing his friends a pear-tree in the courtyard of the convent, under which he discussed the matter with Staupitz, who, however, insisted on his demand. He must have felt the more sensibly the responsibility of his new task, from his own personal strivings after new and true theological light.
When in 1515 the associated convents had to choose at Gotha, on a chapter-day, their new authorities, Luther was appointed, Staupitz being still Vicar-General, the Provincial Vicar for Meissen and Thuringia. He obtained by this office the superintendence of eleven convents, to which in the next year he paid the customary visitation.
Staupitz made an apologetic gesture. "Only once in twelve times." Lagardere turned to Saldagno, Pepe, and Pinto. "Ah, my bandits of Madrid, who tried me, three to one." Saldagno was more apologetic than Staupitz, with a Latin profusion of gesture, as he explained: "That was for a wager, captain." Lagardere shrugged his shoulders. "Which you did not win." He turned to Joel de Jurgan.
His account against the assassins of Caylus was being slowly paid; but never had any item of that account been annulled with less regret. The others Staupitz, Saldagno, Pinto, and the rest had been ruffianly creatures enough, but there was a kind of honesty, a measure of courage in their ruffianism.
CHARLES M. JACOBS. Allentown, PA. Disputato pro declaratione virutis indulgentiarum. Luther says, Apud nostros et propter nostros editae aunt. Weimar Ed., I. 528. On the whole subject see Letters to Staupitz and the Pope, below. Cf. Weimar Ed., I, 229. The Church of All Saints at Wittenberg was the repository of the great collection of relics which Frederick the Wise had gathered.
On May 2, 1507, he was consecrated to the priesthood. Within the year following, at the instance of Staupitz, Frederick the Wise appointed him professor in the new University of Wittenberg. May 9, 1509, he took his degree of bachelor of divinity.
Staupitz, without whom he would have been swallowed up in them and perished. The first firm ground, however, for his convictions and his inner life, and the foundation for all his later teachings and works, was found by Luther in his own persevering study of Holy Writ. In this also he was encouraged by Staupitz, who must, however, have been amazed at his indefatigable industry and zeal.
One morning, he was found senseless and seemingly dead; a brother played to him on a flute, and soothed his senses back to consciousness. It was long since any such phenomenon had appeared among the rosy friars of Erfurt. They could not tell what to make of him. Staupitz, the prior, listened to his accusations of himself in confession.
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