Image of Johann Tetzel is seen on a public information column posted at St. Nicholas Church in Jüterbog, Germany. (Wikimedia Commons/Assenmacher) Born in 1465 in Pirna, Saxony ...

In the 16th century, a friar named Johann Tetzel roamed Germany, selling indulgences for the dead, who neither sought forgiveness nor were able to express contrition but whose relatives could ...

In the 16th century it was Johann Tetzel, a German Dominican preacher who caught the ire of Martin Luther by his shameless selling of indulgences. His famous sales pitch went something like this, “As ...

Johann Tetzel was a priest who sold indulgences for the building of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Tetzel used slogans such as, “As soon as a coin in coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.” ...

Tetzel was the indulgence peddler. He was a Dominican friar, tapped by Giovanni de' Medici, who later became Pope Leo X, to preach on indulgences, which he embraced as his life's mission. Pope Leo ...

Luther, then an obscure theologian and minister, was outraged by the behaviour of Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar who was selling indulgences to raise money to fund the pet project of his boss ...

Johann Tetzel Peddling purgatory relief: Johann Tetzel When Martin Luther affixed his "95 Theses" to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church 500 years ago this Oct. 31, one of the foremost items on ...

“A s soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs,” ran an early advertising jingle attributed to Johann Tetzel, a 16th-century indulgence salesman. Funding the church ...