History of the Protestant Reformation--the series of changes in Western Christendom between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries resulting in the schism from the Roman Catholic Church. Featured image: Martin Luther's thesis nailed to the church door in Wittenberg. Engraving by Johann Leonard Raab, from a drawing by F. Lessing, ca. 1850.
Calvin at the age of 25. From the Enamel Portrait by Limousin, in possession
of Sir Julius Charles Wernher, Bart. By kind permission. Limousin, the
eminent enamel painter, was a contemporary of Calvin.
He was compelled to witness the burning of his own books in the Church-yard.
[Frontispiece from: The Bohemian Martyrs, or Sketches of the Lives of John
Hus and Jerome of Prague. (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication,
circa 1855).]