According to one account, Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.

Martin Luther died February 22,1546. He was buried at All Saints’ Church, commonly known as the Castle Church (Schlosskirche) in Wittenberg, Germany.

John Campanius was born Stockholm, Sweden, in 1601 and was educated there and at the University of Upsalla. He was ordained in 1633 and in 1642 was sent by Church of Sweden to North America as a missionary to Native Americans.

Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church was established in 1666, the same year that Erik Nelson Smith took formal possession of the island of St. Thomas in the name of the Danish West Indies Company. The original colonizing group included a Lutheran pastor, Kjeld Jensen from Slagelse. A few months after the settlers landed, Smith died, and the Lutheran pastor had to assume temporal, as well as spiritual leadership. The Lutheran church, during the early decades of the Danish colony, was closely allied with the development of the colony…

Luther’s Kleiner Catechismus was translated into the Munsee language by Johan Campanius Holm on his arrival in New Sweden (Pennsylvania) in 1643. It was unprinted for 50 years due to the decline in mission work among the Indians…

Luther’s Kleiner Catechismus was translated into the Munsee language by Johan Campanius Holm on his arrival in New Sweden (Pennsylvania) in 1643. It was unprinted for 50 years due to the decline in mission work among the Indians…