![]() ![]() In its bottom right part, the engraving depicts the Pope, a Cardinal, a Jesuit high official (probably Superior General of the Order) and Prince Primates of the Holy Roman Empire gathered in a cave. They are discussing the upcoming anti-Protestant measures. To the left, the Jesuit is getting money from a wealthy nobleman for an anti-Protestant propaganda, nevertheless to no effect. Behind these figures in the house there are: a Jesuit, several released and deserter mercenaries, as well as a range of other villains the inscription above their heads goes: “Hic Inferis erat in terra Praesidium”, which means: “Here is hell on earth”. In the sky we can see the God wearing a Jesuit biretta and holding the insignia “IHS” with the nails and the pierced heart. In the background, various scenes take place, allegorically representing subversive activity of the Jesuits and the Catholic Church against the Protestants, or so-called Counter-Reformation. There are for instance big fish eating small ones ships in the sea with the inscriptions warning that the sea is infested with evil sea fish two beasts of prey chasing a stork with an accompanying explanation that this is an evidence that the piety is being persecuted two foxes attacking a chick, meaning that the malicious preponderance brutally exterminates the innocent and defenceless two cats attacking a mouse – a game naturally ending up with the death of the weak mouse, etc. The texts in the engraving are mainly in Dutch. At the top to the right we can see the siege of a town attacked by an army and hit by the bullets and shots of an artillery. A brief explanatory text in German (quoted above) is written below the image. ![]() Katalogová čísla: Collection Český Šternberk, kód: 424/59 Original name: Der Jesuiten grosse Klag, wegen ihrer verlohrenen Häuser, insonderheit in Deutschland. Blizzards wake setting, Basf hochhaus abriss, Rihanna loud itunes uk. This leaflet issued by the Protestant party mocks the failures sustained by the imperial army and the Catholic Church, in particular by the Jesuits, when several times defeated in Germany around the year 1630. Kpochs zeilgalerie, Gabor enkellaarzen 671, Min bir gece 25 bolum, Samsung h6350. ![]()
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