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Martin Luther, Protestant church reformer, (1903)

Martin Luther, Protestant church reformer, (1903). After a picture in the Tower Church at Weimar. Luther (1483-1546) was a major inspiration behind the Reformation. He was excommunicated by Pope Leo IX in 1521 and declared an outlaw at the Diet of Worms. Under the protection of the Elector of Saxony, Luther produced a German translation of the Bible, and he went on to found the Lutheran Protestant Church. After a portrait by Cranach (1520) from the title page of a sermon against the authority of the Church published in 1522. A print from The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr HF Helmolt, Volume II, William Heinemann, London, 1903

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I. Oliver, (c1565-1617), 1830. Creator: Unknown

I. Oliver, (c1565-1617), 1830. Isaac Oliver (c1565-1617) English portrait miniature painter. Moved to England with Huguenot parents to escape Wars of Religion in France. He studied under Nicholas Hilliard and after the death of Elizabeth I, became court painter for James I, painting queen Anne of Denmark and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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Designed Protestant church on Mount Zion, 1845. Creator: Unknown

Designed Protestant church on Mount Zion, 1845. For some time past, the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, have been sedulously labouring to complete the Church which they have commenced erecting at Jerusalem, but which, from various causes, has not been erected higher than six or seven feet above ground; although the depth underground, to the solid rock, on which the foundations are laid, in many places exceeds forty feet...The erection of a Church has since acquired additional importance from the need of a place of worship for the numbers of English and foreign Protestants who now frequent the Holy City...an English lady has undertaken to complete the Church, and endow it with an income of £100 per annum for a permanent minister, as well as to contribute the sum necessary to form a fund for keeping the Church in repair'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII

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