Martin Luther of Germany, he generated a schism in the Catholic Church and formed his own Lutherism faction of Christianity.
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Monks contributed to the development of the Western culture in the Byzantine empire with the <u>preservation of Greek and Roman works</u>.
At the time, most rulers were Catholic and believed that the Pope had influence over all of them. And to top all of that, Roman Catholicism was the only Christian religion at the time.
Not limited to citizens initially to mortals to Greek mythology and reality (sorry if it doesn't make sense ;-;)