Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day<span>, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's </span>Normandy<span> region..</span>
The criterion expressed here comes from the Protestant, Lutheran belief. The Lutheran belief states that any Christian can get God´s grace and thus, salvation, through faith only. Buying divine favor such as paying indulgences for the forgiveness of sins is not right nor it leads to salvation.