Ignatius Of Loyola

Ignatius Of Loyola

male, deceased (1556)
religious order, patron saint, Society of Jesus, feast day, beatified, Guipuzcoa…Counter-Reformation, protestant reformation, CounterReformation
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jes...
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

male, deceased (1640)
humanist scholar, portraiture, Charles I, humanism, Counter-Reformation, knighted
Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized...
Lawrence Of Brindisi

Lawrence Of Brindisi

male, deceased (1619)
Capuchin, From BRINDISI, Saint, Doctor of the Church, Italian, verona…Counter-Reformation
Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559, Brindisi, Puglia - July 22, 1619), born "Giulio Cesare Russo", was a Roman Catholic friar, a member of...
Caravaggio

Caravaggio

male, deceased (1610)
Knight of Malta, From Milan, Protestantism, painter, baroque, artist…Counter-Reformation
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in...
Major Orders

Major Orders

male
Christian, Holy Orders, minor orders, Counter-Reformation, subdeacon, chasuble
The term major orders was a part of the clerical terminology of the Roman Catholic Church until shortly after the Second Vatican Council, when the...

Tomás Luis de Victoria

male, deceased (1611)
Orlando de Lassus, Counter-Reformation, palestrina, spanish, 16th century, Renaissance
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - August 20, 1611) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th c...

Péter Pázmány

male, deceased (1637)
Royal Hungary, cleric, cardinal, hungarian, philosopher, Early modern philosopher…Counter-Reformation
Péter Pázmány de Panasz was a philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Cou...
Piotr Skarga

Piotr Skarga

male, deceased (1612)
Vilnius University, Vilnius Academy, writer, Counter-Reformation, Lives of the Saint, hagiographer
Piotr Skarga (February 2, 1536 – September 27, 1612 ; actual name: "Piotr Powęski"; referred to in some English sources as "Peter Skarga") was a Pol...
Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci

male, deceased (1612)
from Marche, printmaker, Mannerist painter, Italian, baroque, Baroque painter…Counter-Reformation
Federico Barocci (1528-1612) was an Italian Counter-Reformation or proto-Baroque painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and...
Vincenzo Ruffo

Vincenzo Ruffo

male, deceased (1587)
Gian Matteo Asola, Marc' Antonio Ingegneri, Tridentine, Carlo Borromeo, maestro di cappella, Counter-Reformation
Vincenzo Ruffo (c.1508 - February 9, 1587) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers most responsive to the musical...