Counter-Reformation

Flemish painter (1577–1640)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.

The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church. Headquartered in Rome, it was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and six companions, with the approval of Pope Paul III. The Society of Jesus is the largest Catholic religious male order and has played a significant role in education, charity, humanitarian acts and global policies. Jesuits are engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 countries, including education, research, and cult

Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)

King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598

Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)

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Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558

pope of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572, saint

queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)

pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590

The Counter-Reformation (), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to or from similar insights as, the Protestant Reformations at the time. It was a comprehensive effort arising from the decrees of the Council of Trent.

Fulda (; historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis). In 1990 the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.

Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint (1542–1591)

19th Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church

French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)

massacre of the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) by the French government, 1572

Holy Roman Emperor

Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)

Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)

list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church from 1559 to 14 June 1966

play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)

religious and military conflicts between Protestants and Catholics in France from 1562 to 1598

town in Bavaria, Germany

Italian Roman Catholic saint and founder

Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire (1573–1651)

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

French Catholic saint, priest, and confessor

Grandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572)

Spanish poet

Duke of Guise (1551-1588)

thumb|Carlist flag from the Third Carlist War (c. 1875), with the Carlist motto [[Dios, patria y rey ("God, Fatherland and King")]] Carlism (; ; ; ) is a traditionalist and legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty, one descended from Don Carlos, Count of Molina (1788–1855), on the Spanish throne.

English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury

Catholic cardinal

organization

Hungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman (1570–1637)

1536 uprising against Henry VIII in England

war

Capuchin friar

Roman Catholic archbishop

English bishop (1483-1555)

English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

First complete English language Catholic Bible

popular revolt in Devon and Cornwall in 1549

Welsh Catholic martyr and bard

1976 essay by Carlo Ginzburg

Catholic seminary in Douai

Catholic cardinal (1558-1645)

German bishop (1545-1617)

Roman Catholic religious order founded by Jeanne de Lestonnac

Anglo-Dutch antiquary, publisher, humorist and translator (1550–1640)

former noble family

Belgian religious monument

Early modern Catholic mystics

Jesuit

Historian, Counter-Reformator, Jurist

Flemish art collector, numismatist and mayor of Antwerp (1560-1640)

Book by Johannes van het Kruis