Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. Do you know what you were doing on June the 8th, 2013?

Well, maybe some of our younger listeners weren't even born on June the 8th, 2013.

But on that day, Google was celebrating the 505th

anniversary of the

primos trubar. Primos chubar was born in June of 1508.

He is sometimes called the Slovenian Martin Luther

and he is the founder of the Slovene language.

Not only was he celebrated by Google, but he is considered a national hero of Slovenia.

He is on coins and on postage stamps.

There are monuments to him, and there have even been TV shows made about him.

Well, you might never have heard of Primo's Truebar before,

but we're going to remedy that right now.

As I said he was born in 1508,

his father wanted him to become a priest

and so he sent him off to study to become a priest.

Very much like Luther, he comes from a family of limited means and so as Luther had to

Sing for his supper and literally sing on the streets to get money to support himself so did true bar

And so he would sing on the streets,

and then finally he sang in the church choir

in Salzburg, and all the while he was studying for the ministry.

He went on to Vienna, Italy in 1524, there he was studying and ended his studies by being ordained

as a priest in 1529.

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