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1415 Jan Hus, theologian and philosopher who would start the Hussite movement, key precursor to Protestantism and the Reformation in Bohemia, died and was executed in Bishopric of Constance after his trial which saw him accused of heresy.

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2020-07-06

26 June 1551: John Bale ex-Carmelite & polemical reformer is collated Rector of Bishopstoke Hampshire He would be nominated bishop of Ossory on 22 Oct 1552, where he made his mark on (eebo/BM)

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2020-06-26

Spain reacting to the Dutch Revolt or to the Protestants of Germany or to the alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire or to the British privateers

Credit to for the waifu lol

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2020-06-16

Protestantismo: *Existe*
España:

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2020-06-10

In Protestant England, fairies were believed to be in league with the Devil and the way to protect yourself from their attacks was to dip your thumb in milk and make the sign of the cross.

Image: Johann Heinrich Füssli

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2020-06-09

23 Apr 1549: theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius arrive in they spend several months with Archbishop Cranmer. In 1557 their corpses were exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)

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2020-04-23

7 Apr 1515: William Tyndale, translator & Protestant reformer ordained priest in Burnt at the stake in Vilvoorde in 1536

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2020-04-07

How did The Paper Pony knew that I was born a Catholic? I was raised a Protestant though, but I will always be a Catholic. My mother told me she baptized me and my twin as a Catholic. Please don't hate me for this. I can relate to this because of my given religion.

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2020-03-19

Entre más rojo, más católico; entre más amarillo, más budista; entre más verde, más musulmán; entre más azul, más protestante; entre más morado, más cristianismo ortodoxo; entre más magenta, más humanismo oriental (taoísmo, confusionismo); entre más gris, menos religión.

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2020-03-04

1500 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, was born in Ghent. Arguably one of the most influential monarchs of the 16th century, he consolidated Imperial/Spanish influence in Italy, Western Mediterranean, linked Europe with the American dominions and fought against Protestantism1/3

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2020-02-24

in 1821, English Romantic poet, John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum, at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Cimitero protestante in Rome near Porta San Paolo https://t.co/s1iQM9pajz

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2020-02-23

Amongst his most famous works is his Interior of the Irish House of Commons (Ireland had its own Parliament with only Protestant aristocrats represented), 1780. Travellers Resting on a Country Road (c1784) & Pastoral Scene (nd)

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2020-01-30

Image of Humanist Scholar and Saint: Hungarian Calvinist Albert Szenci Molnár in 1600 and on the title page of his translation of Calvin's Institutio, 1624. He was tortured after the Siege of Heidelberg, 1622. See: https://t.co/Ym2euEcnH8

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2020-01-13

Anonymous woodcut from 1557 of the 1529 Marburg Colloquy summoned by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. It tried to solve a disputation between Luther and over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, while also aiming for the consolidation of a Protestant alliance.

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2020-01-01

Great satirical sketch of Gustavus Adolphus poking Pope Urban VIII to regurgitate cities captured by the Protestants in the 1630's.

Source: Parker, Geoffrey (editor), The Thirty Years War (Second Edition), Routledge, 1997, p.104

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2019-12-09

1594 Gustavus Adolphus of was born. With his reign starting in 1611 he made Sweden a regional power, Protestant stronghold and military powerhouse during the being a central figure of the Intervention Phase (1630-1635)

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2019-12-09

I’ve never seen a Pokémon I was more certain was Protestant

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2019-11-09

Vase Of Violits,
And Lucy Lamp Lady,

Calm and Helpful Protestants

Wicked Water Witch and Hairy Hat Man,

Feckless Catholics

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2019-10-23

Titles by Johannes Hus (cca 1361-1415), a Czech theologican, an inspirer of Hussitism and a key predecessor to Protestantism are in many forms in our historical collections. This Quadragesimale (#NationalLibraryCZ V E 19) was written in the first half of 15th century in Bohemia.

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2019-08-27