//=time() ?>
Hans Holbein the Younger sketches family life in lockdown, (British Museum, 1532-33)
Those heretics, the state of them, best buddies with Satan.
The heretic holds the hand of a winged angel with clawed feet (Satan) and they walk together in a landscape. 1574-75.
(British Museum)
Landscape with many figures, Master of the Hermitage, 1590-1600
(British Museum)
27 Sept 1970: Paul VI declares St Teresa of Avila a Doctor of the Church #otd The first woman to be so designated.
27 Sept 1581: in the Tower of #London #otd - the last of 4 disputes between St Edmund Campion & #Protestant divines. A planned 5th was cancelled due to adverse publicity (BM)
Baptism of a prince of Spain
Jacques Callot, 1612
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
26 Sept 1546: Edmund Bonner Bishop of #London burns all Miles Coverdale's books including the Englished #Bible, at Paul's Cross #otd (BM)
@DrStevenMFoster
26 Sept: feast of SS. Cosmas & Damian, martyrs & physicians. Cosmas holds a fine urine bottle #otd (BM)
25 Sept 1534: d. Pope Clement VII #otd who did not grant Henry VIII 'his' annulment (GCI) Whoops?