29 Apr 1776 Montreal, Canada. Benjamin Franklin leads a delegation including Samuel Chase & Charles Carroll to encourage Canadians to desert the crown. The Canadians, mostly French Catholics demurred as the Protestant Americans were long-standing enemies.

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Our Charter Rights has bias to a Protestant interpretation of Crown laws that viewed Roman Catholics and unceded people as Terra Nullius people under Oliver Cromwell’s laws. We are stuck in British Empire’s abuse of dominance and anti competitive laws in Canada.

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28 Apr 1558: Walter Mylne executed in St. Andrews - he was the last to be burnt in before the kingdom itself officially turned

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The BNA act was handed to Canada. We never had a constitution that was written with the inclusion of Indigenous, Black and non Protestant people. Women were excluded as were LGBTQ and disabled people and other ethnic groups. We need a new constitution to assure equity for all.

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C'est marrant, sur mes huit livres de ceinture indexés, j'en ai trois sur des personnages négatifs/satiriques, surtout au nord et chez des artistes plus ou moins proche des milieux protestants 📙👀

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The Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 in County Armagh. Around 300 Protestants were slaughtered initially in the River Bann by a group of O'Neill clansmen, in total across Armagh 1250 were killed, 25% of the Ulster-Scot population of that region.

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8 Feb 1555: Laurence Sanders having been arraigned by Bishop Stephen Gardiner at Southwark cathedral a week earlier, and convicted of heresy is burnt at (BM)

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Henri IV of France signing the ratification of his abjuration of Protestantism before Alessandro de Medici, the Pope’s Legate & future Leo XI. This happened on 1 Aug 1596.

The image was made in 1610 which was the year Henri was assasinated.



(British Museum)

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29 Jan 1555: Laurence Sanders arraigned by Bishop Stephen Gardiner at convicted of heresy & burnt at on 8 Feb 1555 (BM)

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OTD 1596 Confirmation of Mabel Bagenal, Countess Tyrone's death [Tyrone's 3rd wife]. Married in a protestant service in 1591. Tyrone was anything but a doting husband. His affairs and attempts to kill her brother drove her to return to Newry where she died age 24

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1/ seems that in 17th century there were two schools of still life painting in Europe. There were the catholics who celebrated life by imbuing every fruit and vegetable with religious meanings. And on the other hand there were the existentialist protestants...

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Advent no17 is the history of the Christmas tree

Germany is credited with starting the Xmas tree tradition in the C16th when Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. It is believed that Martin Luther, the C16th Protestant reformer added lighted candles to a tree.

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Capt Henry Harrison OBE MC* MP (17 Dec 1867 Co Feb 1954). Despite being Protestant, against RIC in Donegal evictions; became celebrity! Bodyguard of Parnell; after death devoted himself to Katharine. Wrote about divorce from their side. https://t.co/YOdA0KvFgr

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We have been fighting religious wars for over 400 years between Roman Catholic and Protestants in Canada and we need to remove these bias laws from our politics to end abuse of dominance and anti competitive practices.

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For Reformation Day, here are the main characters of the Protestant Reformation if they were anime girls: Luther-chan, Calvin-chan, Zwingli-chan and Leo-sama

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Since it's here are the main characters of the Protestant Reformation if they were all anime girls.

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is back after a hiatus just in time for with a deep dive into the Story of Old followed by a discussion of Catholic, Protestant & Roman themes in the play & of Shakespeare's relationship to Catholicism: https://t.co/CCmcea6AkW

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by Glenn Patterson provides a view of the south of Ireland – political, social, geographical – through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it..

Out on October 14th in hardback. Pre-order here: https://t.co/tYuyia3pOo

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