In 1501 at the age of eighteen Luther entered the University of Erfurt where he studied the liberal arts, and in 1505 attained his Master’s degree with the intention of studying Law as was his father’s wish. However that was not to be as it is said that while Luther was just outside of Stotterheim one day after visiting his parents he was caught in a terrific thunderstorm where lightning struck nearby, thus throwing him to the ground and in his terror he called out “St. Anne Help me! I will become a monk!”
Sounds like your leader praying to a Saint to me.
1. Luther is not my leader.
I respect a lot of the good he did for the Christian Church universal. He was flawed as well as the RC edifice of the time was exceedingly flawed.
2. I have no responsibility for his conditioning toward praying to anyone else but God. He has since learned the folly of that, I’m sure.