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What did Pope Leo X first ask the Augustinian order to do about Martin Luther?
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Pope Leo X, contemporary medallion; in the coin collection of the Vatican Library.
In 1518, after Martin Lutherās ideas had reached Rome, Pope Leo X ordered the head of the Augustinian orderāthe religious order to which Luther belongedāto silence him.1