Tetzel
Americannoun
noun
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In 1517, Luther decided to take a public stand against the actions of a friar named Johann Tetzel.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Tetzel was raising money to rebuild St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
His displeasure noticeably increased during 1517, when the Dominican John Tetzel was preaching throughout much of Germany on behalf of a papal fund-raising campaign to complete St. Peter's Basilica.
From Time Magazine Archive
Johannis Tetzel of Pyrna in Meissen, a Dominican monk, was a powerful preacher of the papal indulgences.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
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