Pamphlet on the Beneficent Acts of the Jesuits in Bohemia

Flugblatt zur segensreichen Tätigkeit der Jesuiten in Böhmen, unbekannter Künstler, 1680; Bildquelle: Das Ökumenische Heiligenlexikon, http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Orden/Jesuiten.htm.

The Jesuit order played an important role in the counterreformation. They came to Bohemia at the invitation of Ferdinand I (1503–1564) in order to help re-Catholicise the country which had been religiously divided following the Hussite wars.

Pamphlet on the Beneficent Acts of the Jesuits in Bohemia, unknown artist, 1680; source: Das Ökumenische Heiligenlexikon, http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Orden/Jesuiten.htm.