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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

Emmanuel N’Djoké Dibango, dit Manu Dibango, est né à Douala, au Cameroun le 12 décembre 1933. Papa est de maman de Sa famille est de confession protestante, et maman dirige la chorale du temple.

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2020-03-24

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

9 mars 1765: fruit de la campagne menée sans relâche par Voltaire, le protestant Jean Calas est réhabilité par le Parlement de Paris 3 ans après avoir été rompu vif sur la roue!
La famille de l'infortuné perçoit du Roi une indemnité de £36.000 et sera reçue à la Cour.

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2020-03-09

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

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

3 Jan 1625: d. Christopher Hampton Church of Ireland Archbishop of James Ussher Bishop of was nominated his successor on the 29th - one of James VI & I's very last appointments and a rare promotion at this level for a born Protestant (Bodleian)

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2020-01-03

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

Me: *talks about interest in history*
Dad: *is interested*
Me: *starts talking about the English Reformation and how the Catholics killed thousands of Protestants*
Dad:

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2019-12-24

Religious denominations in Germany (2011 data). Blue is the Evangelical Church (protestants), Green is the Catholic Church and Red are people who are not affiliated to any religion. Source: https://t.co/NEbO6c7pqJ

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2019-11-28

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

Did you know that the Swiss reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in 1531 during the Battle of Kappel when Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich? This image comes from our Zwingli Bible that we sold at TEFAF Maastricht this spring.

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2019-10-11

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

23 Aug 1572: the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Protestants begins in the night (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts) It is witnessed from the English Embassy by both Philip Sidney & Francis Walsingham (NPG)

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2019-08-23