Prostitution was suppressed.

A new order of divine service was introduced, in which the words purporting that the mass was a sacrifice were omitted, and communion was given to the laity in both kinds.

Priests were urged to marry, and monks were almost forced to leave the cloister.

An element of mob violence early manifested itself both at Wittenberg and elsewhere.

An outbreak at Erfurt against the clergy occurred in June, 1521, and by the end of the year riots took place at Wittenberg.
Even now, at the dawn of the revolution, appeared the beginnings of those sects, more radical than the Lutheran, commonly known as Anabaptist.