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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Visions of the Gunpowder Plot
Nancy Bilyeau, JSTOR Daily
Friday, November 2, 2018
In 1604, a Catholic plot to blow up Parliament was foiled and the conspirators executed. Ever since, “Remember, remember the 5th of November” has been an anti-Catholic mantra in Great Britain. Various dramatic depictions have looked at the Plot from varying perspectives, but one thing is certain: Tudor England was a police state.