In the decades of #Cinquecento, Lutheran and Calvinist reform has now taken a number of European countries to #Roma and control of the Papacy, while also remaining Catholic States there are outbreaks of heresy. Throughout the Catholic world you start to feel the need for a church reform now felt as too far from the original Evangelical vocation. It is in this context that begins with the #ConciliodiTrento, in order to reassemble the fractures between #Cattolici and #Luterani. To win the battle line will open, which will start a long period of repression but also of ecclesiastical institutions internal reform, known as the #Controriforma. The Counter-Reformation is on #GrandiPontefici, #StoricaNationalGeographic on newsstands this month. (Fresco on the vault of the Church of SantIgnazio in Rome, Andrea Pozzo, 1685. Depicts the apotheosis of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the society of Jesus, the order of symbol) (Translated by Bing)
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:47:34 +0000
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