Peter Palladius, Denmark's Dedicated Reformer

January 3, 1560

When Luther's Reformation began in Germany, it was inevitable that his ideas would seep through border cracks into neighboring Scandinavia. The most vigilant efforts of Denmark's government and its established church could not stop German ideas, books, and preachers from slipping into the country. A shoemaker's son was the chief agent of reform in Denmark. Peder Palladius was still a student when Reformation ideas arrived. He found himself agreeing with the Reformation call to a life of...

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