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.
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).]
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.