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.

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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.

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

Eighteenth Century collections online

A letter to the Lord Marquis of Buckingham, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, &c. &c. &c. chiefly on the subject of the numerous emigrant French priests and others of the Church of Rome, resident and maintained in England at the public expence; And on the Spirit and Principles of the Romish Church Sacred and Political. Second edition, (first printed in October 1796.) By a layman.

The detractors convicted; or, Messrs. Coen and Lee refuted: being an address to the Roman Catholics of England. In four parts. By Laurence Franey, Coal-Heaver, Classical and Commercial Teacher.

The case of apal months and reservations, particularly with regard to Ireland, fairly stated. Romano-Hibernus.

Early English books online

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.

Early European Books : Printed sources to 1700

Early European Books.

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

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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.

Online resource (v., In-4° , pièces limin., 240 ff., table, musique).

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,...

Devotum officium sponsi Jhesu / : amore languentium animarum excitatiuum

Catechismo, cioe istruttione secondo il decreto del concilio di Trento, a' parochi, publicato per comandamento del santissimo s.n. papa Pio 5. & tradotto poi per ordine di s. Santità in lingua uolgare dal reuerendo padre fratre Alesso Figliucci, de l'ordine de' predicatori.

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

The detractors convicted; or, Messrs. Coen and Lee refuted: being an address to the Roman Catholics of England. In four parts. By Laurence Franey, Coal-Heaver, Classical and Commercial Teacher.

The case of apal months and reservations, particularly with regard to Ireland, fairly stated. Romano-Hibernus.

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

The detractors convicted; or, Messrs. Coen and Lee refuted: being an address to the Roman Catholics of England. In four parts. By Laurence Franey, Coal-Heaver, Classical and Commercial Teacher.

The case of apal months and reservations, particularly with regard to Ireland, fairly stated. Romano-Hibernus.

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