Question: In what state is the district where the one who wanted to reform and address the institution behind the religion of Egidio Vagnozzi preached a sermon?

Despite Martin Luther's harsh polemics against his Roman Catholic opponents over issues concerning Mary and the saints, theologians appear to agree that Luther adhered to the Marian decrees of the ecumenical councils and dogmas of the church. He held fast to the belief that Mary was a perpetual virgin and the Theotokos or Mother of God. Special attention is given to the assertion that Luther, some three-hundred years before the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854, was a firm adherent of that view. Others maintain that Luther in later years changed his position on the Immaculate Conception, which, at that time was undefined in the Church, maintaining however the sinlessness of Mary throughout her life. For Luther, early in his life, the Assumption of Mary was an understood fact, although he later stated that the Bible did not say anything about it and stopped celebrating its feast. Important to him was the belief that Mary and the saints do live on after death. "Throughout his career as a priest-professor-reformer, Luther preached, taught, and argued about the veneration of Mary with a verbosity that ranged from childlike piety to sophisticated polemics. His views are intimately linked to his Christocentric theology and its consequences for liturgy and piety." His final thoughts on Marian devotion and veneration are preserved in a sermon preached at Wittenberg only a month before his death: Luther, while revering Mary, came to criticize the "Papists" for blurring the line, between high admiration of the grace of God wherever it is seen in a human being, and religious service given to another creature. He considered the Roman Catholic practice of celebrating saints' days and making intercessory requests addressed especially to Mary and other departed saints to be idolatry. <SEP> the legend goes that livinus was born from irish nobility. upon studies in england, where he visited saint augustine of canterbury, he returned to ireland. he later went on a "peregrinatio domini" and left ireland for ghent (belgium) and zeeland (netherlands) where he preached. during one of his sermons, livinus was attacked in the village of esse, near geraardsbergen by a group of pagans who cut off his tongue and head. <SEP> Egidio Vagnozzi (26 February 1906 – 26 December 1980) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the second president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See from 1968 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967. <SEP> Luther began by criticising the sale of indulgences, insisting that the Pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the Bible. The Protestant Reformation, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as a complete reliance on Scripture as a source of proper belief (sola scriptura) and the belief that faith in Jesus, and not good works, is the only way to obtain God's pardon for sin (sola fide). The core motivation behind these changes was theological, though many other factors played a part, including the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded loyalty to the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much traditional thought. Although there had been significant earlier attempts to reform the Catholic Church before Luther -- such as those of Jan Hus, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe -- Martin Luther is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation with the Ninety - five Theses. <SEP> luke -- acts is an attempt to answer a theological problem, namely how the messiah of the jews came to have an overwhelmingly non-jewish church; the answer it provides, and its central theme, is that the message of christ was sent to the gentiles because the jews rejected it. luke -- acts can be also seen as a defense of (or ``apology ''for) the jesus movement addressed to the jews: the bulk of the speeches and sermons in acts are addressed to jewish audiences, with the romans serving as external arbiters on disputes concerning jewish customs and law. on the one hand luke portrays the christians as a sect of the jews, and therefore entitled to legal protection as a recognised religion; on the other, luke seems unclear as to the future god intends for jews and christians, celebrating the jewishness of jesus and his immediate followers while also stressing how the jews had rejected god's promised messiah. <SEP> Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the district-free city of Dessau-Roßlau, the districts of Potsdam-Mittelmark, Teltow-Fläming and Elbe-Elster in Brandenburg, and the district of Nordsachsen in the Free State of Saxony. Wittenberg is a district () in the east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.