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THIS year marks the 500th anniversary of the event generally taken to mark the start of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther’s action in nailing up 95 theses attacking some of the practices and doctrines of the late Medieval Catholic church, especially the sale of indulgences, on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, a university town in eastern Germany.
Inevitably, and rightly, commemorative events here will focus on the legacy of Lutheranism in Scotland and more widely on the country’s Reformation heritage.