Nearly a month had passed since Ludolf made his public denunciation of the Church, and by then, thousands of copies of his manifesto had spread across the German-speaking regions, priests, bishops, and noblemen alike flocked to his cause sharing their support for his claims.
What started as a localized Heresy as it was deemed by the church quickly consumed the German world and caught on like wildfire. The Catholic Church was in a crisis; both the Papacy in Avignon and the Vatican publically declared Ludolf's Reformation as an extension of the Berengar Heresy, which the Vatican had long since been trying to combat the growing influence.
