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1. Martin Luther

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   Born in Eisleben, Electorate of Saxony, Luther initially pursued a career in law. Following an intense, life-altering experience during a severe thunderstorm in 1505, during which he reputedly swore an oath to St. Anne, he abruptly abandoned his secular studies and joined the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt 1].
   His time in the monastery was marked by intense spiritual searching. He struggled profoundly with the perceived unreachability of a righteous God, often subjecting himself to severe ascetic practices inten…