Book Title: Catechismus, Das ist, Christliche Vnderweisung vnd gegründter Bericht, nach warer Euangelischer vnd Catholischer lehr, vber die Furnembste stücke vnsers hailigen allgemeinen Christen glaubens. ... / zu Maintz im löblichen Ertzdhomstiefft, durch Herrn Michaeln Bischoff zu Merseburg,, der zeit Suffraganeen rc. gepredigt

Author: Helding, Michael, 1506-1561

Image Title: The Crucifixion of Jesus

Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It represents the second section of the Apostle's Creed. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffragan bishop of Mainz, and later postulate bishop (by Emperor Charles V) of Merseburg, Helding was a key figure in developing the Augsburg Interim..

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