| − | On February 27, 1507, after two years in the Monastery, Luther was ordained a Roman-Catholic priest. In later life he recounted how wonderfully awesome an experience his first celebration of Mass as a Roman-Catholic priest was. In the fall of 1508, his Monastery superior Johann von Staupitz requested that Luther begin graduate studies in theology at the then new University of Wittenberg. Sometime after 1509, Luther was sent to Rome on monastic business and became disappointed by what he saw as a teribble worldliness.<ref name=Jones/> | + | On February 27, 1507, after two years in the Monastery, Luther was ordained a Roman-Catholic priest. In later life he recounted how wonderfully awesome an experience his first celebration of Mass as a Roman-Catholic priest was. In the fall of 1508, his Monastery superior Johann von Staupitz requested that Luther begin graduate studies in theology at the then new University of Wittenberg. Sometime after 1509, Luther was sent to Rome on monastic business and became, what is now famously so, disappointed by what he saw as a teribble worldliness.<ref name=Jones/> |