Martin Luther Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Luther and the swan== <gallery> File:Strümpfelbach im Remstal - Kirche - Lutherbild.jpg|Luther with a swan (painting in the church at [[Weinstadt#Strümpfelbach|Strümpfelbach im Remstal]], Weinstadt, Germany, by J. A. List) File:WLM - andrevanb - amsterdam, ronde lutherse kerk (1).jpg|Swan weather vane, [[Ronde Lutherse Kerk|Round Lutheran Church]], Amsterdam File:Halberstadt St Martini Altar.jpg|Altar in St Martin's Church, [[Halberstadt]], Germany. Luther and the swan are toward the top on the right. File:Fotothek df tg 0004142 Münze ^ Gedenkmünze ^ Schaumünze ^ Medaille ^ Schwan.jpg|Coin commemorating Luther (engraving by Georg Wilhelm Göbel, [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]], 1706) </gallery> Luther is often depicted with a swan as his [[Emblem|attribute]], and Lutheran churches often have a swan for a weather vane. This association with the swan arises out of a prophecy reportedly made by the earlier reformer Jan Hus from Bohemia and endorsed by Luther. In the [[Czech language|Bohemian language]] (now Czech), Hus's name meant [[:cz:Husa|"grey goose"]]. In 1414, while imprisoned by the Council of Constance and anticipating his execution by burning for heresy, Hus prophesied, "Now they will roast a goose, but in a hundred years' time they'll hear a swan sing. They'd better listen to him." Luther published his ''Ninety-five Theses'' some 103 years later.<ref>[https://www.hamburger-reformation.de/hamburger-reformation/panorama-geschichten/luther-und-der-schwan Luther und der Schwan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019013653/https://www.hamburger-reformation.de/hamburger-reformation/panorama-geschichten/luther-und-der-schwan |date=19 October 2019 }} hamburger-reformation.de, retrieved 19 October 2019</ref><ref>[https://lutheranpress.com/the-swan/ The Swan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706123240/https://lutheranpress.com/the-swan/ |date=6 July 2020 }} Lutheran Press, retrieved 6 July 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-music-history/article/lutheran-identity-of-josquins-missa-pange-lingua-renaissance-of-a-renaissance-mass/BB791A5089D9E675993F0AA00EC4E4B0 The Lutheran Identity of Josquin's ''Missa Pange Lingua'' (reference note 94)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706135913/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-music-history/article/lutheran-identity-of-josquins-missa-pange-lingua-renaissance-of-a-renaissance-mass/BB791A5089D9E675993F0AA00EC4E4B0 |date=6 July 2020 }} Early Music History, vol. 36, October 2017, pp. 193–249; CUP; retrieved 6 July 2020</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page