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Counter-Reformation
- Mary I of EnglandMary Tudor entered the world on the 18th of February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. She was the only child of King Henry VIII and his first…
- Stephen GardinerStephen Gardiner died on the 12th of November 1555 with a Latin phrase on his lips: Erravi cum Petro, sed non flevi cum Petro.
- Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola was born Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola in a castle in the Basque municipality of Azpeitia, the youngest of thirteen children in a minor…
- InquisitionAn inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure in which ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate, and try cases within their jurisdiction.
- John of the CrossJohn of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez on the 24th of June 1542, in Fontiveros, a small Castilian town of around 2,000 people, into a family of…
- Philip II of SpainPhilip II of Spain was born on the 21st of May 1527 at the Palacio de Pimentel in Valladolid, and by the time he died on the 13th of September 1598, he had…
- Catherine de' MediciCatherine de' Medici was born on the 13th of April 1519 in Florence, and within a month both her parents were dead. Her mother Madeleine died of puerperal…
- French Wars of ReligionBetween two and four million people died from the French Wars of Religion, killed by violence, famine, or disease the fighting set loose.
- Teresa of ÁvilaTeresa of Ávila was born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada on the 28th of March 1515, and she died either just before midnight on the 4th of October…
- Pilgrimage of GraceIn 1535, the year before the revolt began, bad harvests triggered grain riots in Craven during June and Somerset by April.
- ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus woke before dawn, ink already on his fingers, and on a busy day he wrote or answered as many as forty letters in his own hand.
- Counter-ReformationThe Counter-Reformation was a sweeping Catholic resurgence that grew in response to, and in parallel with, the Protestant Reformation.
- Index Librorum ProhibitorumThe Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Church's official list of forbidden books, ran for four centuries and eventually grew to condemn 4,000 titles.
- Prayer Book RebellionIn the late 1540s, Lord Protector Somerset introduced legislative measures to change theology and practices in England. These changes targeted areas of…
- Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was buried on the same day he died, in a plain coffin fitted with a lead plate. The inscription read Ioannes Petrus Aloysius…
- Reginald PoleReginald Pole entered the world at Stourton Castle in Staffordshire on the 12th of March 1500. He was the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole…
- Luis de LeónBelmonte, a small town in the province of Cuenca, was the birthplace of Luis de León in 1527. His father Lope de León practiced law and moved the family to…