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Also Known As Catholic Revival • Catholic Reformation
Date c. 1501 - c. 1650
Participants Roman Catholicism
Context Roman Catholicism • Roman Inquisition

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Athravaeth Gristnogavl title page
Council of Trent
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish Inquisition
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Francis Xavier Baptizing Infidels
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Paul III
Paul III
pope
Philip II
Philip II
king of Spain and Portugal
Ferdinand II
Holy Roman emperor
Paul IV
Paul IV
pope
Pius IV
Pius IV
pope
Matthias, print
Matthias
Holy Roman emperor
St. Robert Bellarmine
Italian cardinal
Borromeo, St. Charles
St. Charles Borromeo
Italian cardinal and archbishop
Gregory XIII
Gregory XIII
pope
St. Francis of Sales, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1618
Saint Francis of Sales
French bishop
Clement VIII
Clement VIII
pope
Madonna and Child Appearing to Saint Philip Neri, oil on canvas by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, probably 1725 or after; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 112.4. × 63.5 cm.
Saint Philip Neri
Roman Catholic saint
St. Peter Canisius
Jesuit scholar
St. Lawrence of Brindisi
Christian saint
Piotr Skarga
Polish Jesuit
Saint John Leonardi
Roman Catholic priest
St. Cajetan of Thiene
Catholic priest
Ludwig Pfyffer
Swiss military leader
Melchior Klesl
Austrian cardinal