The History of the

Catholic Church

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Benedict, Scholastica and the Thunderstorm, 14th C. fresco in the Sacro Speco monastery, Subiaco

Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Caravaggio (1601)

First Council of Nicaea, Turkish Byzantine fresco

Anthony the Great, by Fra Angelico (1435)

Discovery of the True Cross, by Agnolo Gaddi (1380’s)

Francis and the Sultan, by Fra Angelico (1429)

St. Catherine in Avignon, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1919)

Meister Eckhart, artist unknown

Martin Luther, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1529)

Huldrych Zwingli, by Hans Asper (1531)

Council of Trent, by Nicolo Dorigati (1711)

St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Calcutta