Iconoclasm’s Evil War Against The Sacred… The Beeldenstorm Of 1566 And How Catholic Artists Fought Back
By JAMES MONTI Part 1 “. . . The enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! / Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place . . . / At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes. / And then all its carved wood / they broke down with hatchets and hammers / They set thy sanctuary on fire; / to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name . . . / they burned all the meeting places of God in the land” (Psalm 74:3-8).On Christmas morning in the year 1554, the faithful of Tournai, Belgium, were attending Mass at a side chapel in the city’s cathedral church when a stranger…Continue Reading