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Iris, c. 1575
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1538-1588
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
St Anne between St John the Baptist and St Anthony Abbot
(The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology)
10 Feb, feast of St. Scholastica, twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia, #nuntastic patron saint of nuns
(British Museum)
On the execution #otd 9 Feb 1555 of Bishop John Hooper, here's 'Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie' c. 1630'
Holy Hooper, Christian Cranmer, Lovely Latimer, Religious Reverend Ridley, Saint-like Saunders, Faithful Philpott ... and so on.
Alliterated martyrs
(British Museum)
The Abbesse du Maubisson, 1586
Madeleine II Tiercelin de Brosses was abbess from 1574-1594 of this royal Cistercian foundation [1236] begun Blanche de Castille.
Attributed to François Quesnel.
(British Museum)
8 Feb 1555: Laurence Sanders #Protestant having been arraigned by Bishop Stephen Gardiner at Southwark cathedral a week earlier, and convicted of heresy is burnt at #Coventry #otd (BM)
This title just cried out to be tweeted:
‘Hurdy-gurdy player attacking a pilgrim’
Jacques Bellange, c. 1614
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)