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unusual facts about the Reformation



Appingen Abbey

Shortly before the Reformation, the monastery of Aten, in the present-day borough of Nordenham, was planted by Appingen.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

The territorial centres of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön were the districts (Ämter) of Ahrensbök and Reinfeld established after the Reformation by the merging of the former abbeys at Ahrensbök and Reinfeld.


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Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

Like his father, Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg he was an advocate of the Reformation.

Bernt Ivar Eidsvig

Eidsvig is the third Norwegian-born Catholic bishop in Norway since the Reformation, after Olaf Offerdahl (consecrated 6 April 1930, died 7 October the same year) and John Willem Gran (consecrated March 24, 1963, died March 20, 2008).

Bible translations in the Middle Ages

There is no evidence of any official decision to universally disallow translations following the incident at Metz until the Council of Trent, at which time the Reformation threatened the Catholic Church, and the rediscovery of the Greek New Testament presented new problems for translators.

Development of doctrine

Many Protestants, particularly those influenced by Mercersburg Theology, believe in doctrinal development and see the Reformation itself as an example of it.

Early Modern history of Germany

Though Charles V fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his nationalistic predecessor Maximilian I saw the beginning of the Reformation.

Edmund Borlase

Borlase gave Bishop Gilbert Burnet some materials for the 'History' of the Reformation,' among which were papers relative to the English translation of the Bible.

English Reformation

Stanford Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament, 1529 - 1536 (Cambridge University Press, 1970).

Erhard of Queis

Quies sided wholly with the Reformation, just like his predecessor, bishop George of Polentz.

Frohnlach

In 1532, the spread of the Reformation dissolved the Monastery, sending its properties, including Frohnlach, to the Protestant Electorate of Saxony.

George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

In the hereditary lands Brandenburg-Ansbach in Franconia, where with his older brother Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach he had assumed the regency in place of their father, he encountered greater difficulties, although the popular spirit was inclined toward the Reformation.

Heinrich Khunrath

John Warwick Montgomery, "Lutheran Astrology and Lutheran Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation," Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, 11 (June 1963), pp.

Holbæk Priory

Mendicant orders were particularly disliked for the constant appeals for alms in addition to the usual tithes and fees Danes paid to the church until the Reformation.

Hoskuld Hoskuldsson

Hoskuld Hoskuldsson (1465/1470–c.1537 ) was the 28th and last Roman Catholic Bishop of Stavanger, from 1513 until the Reformation in 1537, and also a member of the Riksråd.

Jens Bjelke

In 1611 he received his first fief, Rein Monastery in Rissa, near Trondheim fjord's northern shores, which fell under the crown following the Reformation.

John Chamberlayne

In the preface to a part of this published in 1719 he relates that Fagel assured Bishop Burnet "that it was worth his while to learn Dutch, only for the pleasure of reading Brandt's History of the Reformation".

Chamberlayne's most important work was his translation of Brandt's History of the Reformation in the Low Countries, 4 vols.

Kalloor

Later, many from Thrikkannamangal joined the Reformation movement within the Syrian Church in the 19th century which resulted in the establishment of the Mar Thoma Church.

Karlstadt

Andreas Karlstadt, contemporary of Martin Luther during the Reformation

Kloster Veßra

Vessra Abbey (now an open-air museum) was founded and supported by the Henneberg family and abandoned after the Reformation.

Lambay Island

During the reformation, Archbishop Brown granted the Island to John Challoner for a rent of £6.13.4.

Leandro Arpinati

Arpinati held several positions in the Italian sport world, such as the President of Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) and of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (Italian football federation): he led the reformation of the Serie A championship on national level, and organized the 1934 FIFA World Cup.

Marischal College

The College was constructed on the site of a medieval Franciscan Friary, disused after the Reformation.

Martyrs' Memorial

As well as being a monument to the Reformation, the memorial is also a landmark of the 19th century Oxford Movement, propagated by John Keble, John Henry Newman and others.

Modern Hindu law

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, worked to unify the newly independent India by proposing the reformation and codification of Hindu personal law.

Münzer

Thomas Müntzer (ca. 1488 – 1525), the Reformation Anabaptist theologian/politician

National Astronomical Observatory of China

The reformation of management strucuture imitated to National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) of USA and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I

After a disputation meeting with four hundred and fifty persons participating, including pastors from Bern and other cantons, theologians from outside the Confederation such as Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito from Strasbourg, Ambrosius Blarer from Constance, and Andreas Althamer from Nürnberg, Bern counted itself as a canton of the Reformation.

Ottoman general election, 1919

The disbanding of the Committee of Union and Progress led to the creation of several parties, including the reformation of the Liberal Entente.

Perpetual virginity of Mary

Diarmaid MacCulloch, a historian of the Reformation, wrote that the reason why the early reformers upheld Mary’s perpetual virginity was that she was "the guarantee of the Incarnation of Christ", a teaching that was being denied by the same radicals that were denying Mary’s perpetual virginity.

Peter Heylin

Among his works are a History of the Reformation, and a Life of Archbishop William Laud (Cyprianus Anglicanus) (1668).

Philip Benedict

Benedict’s publications have ranged from economic history to the history of printmaking and information, but have chiefly focused on the social and political history of the Reformation, with primary reference to the French Wars of Religion and the Protestant minority in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.

Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

The Archbishopric of Mainz objected to the reformation policy of Hanau-Lichtenberg and saw to it that Catholicism prevailed in the condominiums of Ober-Roden and Rodgau.

Ralph Morice

Morice, from his official position, was in possession of information, and helped John Foxe and others in their literary researches, mainly by supplying them with his Anecdotes of Cranmer. This compilation was used by Strype in his Memorials of Cranmer, and was reprinted from the manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in Narratives of the Reformation (Camden Society).

Reformation in Italy

The first translation of the Bible into Italian language by Giovanni Diodati of Lucca was published in 1603, after the fall of the Reformation in Italy, and for this reason it only contributed to the development of Protestantism outside Italy, mainly in Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland (Ticino and Grisons).

Robert Aldridge

Benjamin Brook, The lives of the Puritans: containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of uniformity in 1662, Volume 2, J. Black, 1813, pp.

Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine

Its recent history covers the rivalries and alliances between Dauphine and Savoyard nobles in the feudal period around the historical frontier between France and Italy, the reformation, revolution and second world war.

St. Kevin's Church, Camden Row, Dublin

After the Reformation, although a Protestant cemetery, it had come by custom to be used by Catholics and the Quakers.

The Amazing Grace

The film, occasionally narrated by Joke Silva, tells the reformation story of British slave trader John Newton (Nick Moran), sailing to what is now Nigeria to buy slaves but, increasingly shocked by the brutality of slavery, later gave up the trade and became an Anglican priest.

Whickham

From the Romans to the early English settlement to the Norman Conquest, agriculture, the Anglo-Scottish wars, the Reformation, the dawn of railway transportation, electoral reform, twentieth century war to suburbia, all of these great historical themes have influenced life in Whickham.

William M'Culloch

In 1725, he had been asked by members of the Town Council to preach the “Annual Sermon for the Reformation of Manners” and had been chaplain and tutor to the Hamilton family Aitkenhead, near Glasgow.

Wirberg

During the Reformation in Hesse, the monastery was dissolved in 1527 and its assets were transferred to the University of Marburg.

Wollaton Antiphonal

The manuscript was in use at St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton from the 1460s, until Catholic Latin service books were banned in the Reformation in the 1540s.