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A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.

AIDS - plague from God : "I shall not allow a cure" ... message of Our Lady and Our Lord to Veronica Lueken / Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine.

Positive Catholics : we are a peer support network of Christians living with HIV.

A great cedar tree representing the Catholic church, contrasted with two smaller trees representing later denominations. Engraving after W. Cave, ca. 1675.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1825.

A priest (the Catholic church) has tied a young woman (Ireland) with a rope and is admonishing her. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, July 1891.

Margaret Sanger vs. the Catholic Church : the early debate on contraception / by Clement A. Mulloy.

The Protestant almanack for the year from [bracket] the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1681. our deliverance from popery by Queen Eliz. 122 : Being the first after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, diabolical conjunctions, and pernicious revolutions of the papacy against the Lord Christ and the Lords anointed are described. With the change of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, some observable fairs, and the eclipses; together with the moons place in the zodiac, throughout each month of the year. Calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the Pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion; above kings, canons,[couneils] conscience, and every thing therein called God, 2 Thes. 2. And may without sensible error, indifferently serve the whole papacy. / By Philoprotest, a well-willer to the mathematicks.

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

The ceremonies for the healing of them that be diseased with the kings evil, used in the time of King Henry VII. Published by his Majesties command.

The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

Ordonnances et statuts synodaux faicts par Pierre Paparin de Chaumont, évêque de Gap, en son assemblée tenue à Baulme lez Sisteron, en 1587

The graces folowyng be grau[n]ted to al the bretherne [and] systers benefactours and good doers vnto the hospytall of ye blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke fou[n]ded [and] establyssyd w[ith]in the cyte Excester : the daye that they do say a pater noster an Aue, [and] a crede it is grau[n]ted them that they shal neuer be infecte not greued w[ith] the stroke of ye pestylence as more playnly it dothe appere in hys legende how and whan al myghty god graunted thys petycyon to the sayd blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke, [and] sent yt by hys angell Raphaell.

Instructions and regulations for the indulgences that are allowed to the faithful in the Middle District

The primer; or, office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns. To which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary

Manière d'administrer les saincts sacremens de l'Église, y faire prosne et bénédictions / , avec instructions convenables pour leur intelligence, dressées par... Nicolas de Thou,...

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Ordonnances et statuts synodaux faicts par Pierre Paparin de Chaumont, évêque de Gap, en son assemblée tenue à Baulme lez Sisteron, en 1587

Instructions and regulations for the indulgences that are allowed to the faithful in the Middle District

The primer; or, office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns. To which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary

Manière d'administrer les saincts sacremens de l'Église, y faire prosne et bénédictions / , avec instructions convenables pour leur intelligence, dressées par... Nicolas de Thou,...