Siege and Famine--Vain Efforts--The Assault--Capture of Munster--Executions--Luther's Opinion--Three Causes of the disorder--The Finger-post 347 TRIUMPH IN DEATH. DEATH OF LUTHER. (FEBRUARY 18, 1546.) Luther at Eisleben--Sense of his approaching end--Serenity of his Faith--His last testimony--His last breath 353 APPENDIX. Transcript of 'Indulgence' of Leo X. 359 GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I.--VIII. 369 HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF CALVIN. BOOK XIV. THE SPANISH MARTYRS. CHAPTER I. THE AWAKENING IN SPAIN. (1520-1535.) The Church of Spain had long preserved its independence with regard to the papacy. It was at the time of the ambitious and monopolizing Hildebrand that it began to lose it. At the period of the Reformation it had been subject to the pope for more than four hundred years, and great obstacles were opposed to its deliverance. The mass of the people were given to superstition; the Spanish character was resolute to the degree of obstinacy; the clergy reigned supreme; the Inquisition had just been armed with new terrors by Ferdinand and Isabella; and the peninsular situation of the country seemed inevitably to isolate it from those lands in which the Reformation was triumphant.