Abjuration of Papal Supremacy by the Church of England, 332.
The date of the abjuration may be taken as the beginning of the new era, the birth of another Protestant nation.
Carlo Fontana's monument to Christina, Queen of Sweden, who died in Rome in 1689, after her abjuration of Protestantism.
This abjuration was subsequently read in Florence before Galileo's disciples, who had been specially summoned to attend.
The graver portion of these punishments would be remitted, if Galileo would solemnly repudiate the heresies referred to by an abjuration to be pronounced by him in the terms laid down.
At the conclusion of this ceremony, in which he recited his abjuration word for word and then signed it, he was conveyed, in conformity with his sentence, to the prison of the Inquisition.
After his abjuration he was committed to prison, but on the intervention of influential friends was released after a few days' incarceration, and permitted to return to his home at Arcetri.
The ceremony of Galileo's abjurationwas one of exciting interest and of awful formality.
This having been read, he next had to read word for word the abjuration which had been drawn up for him, and then sign it.
Copies of the abjuration were immediately sent to all Universities, with instructions to the professors to read it publicly.
After a tedious and impious harangue by a famous preacher, whose false statements she would not listen to in silence, Jeanne consented to sign anabjuration which did not affect the validity of her claim.
It is a relief, in the midst of this cruel scene, to hear some expressing compassion and imploring her to sign the abjuration to save herself, though some there are who clamor loudly: "Let her be burnt!
The dying man then made a public abjuration of his errors, and expired a few minutes after, in the grace of God and under the protecting smile of Mary.
Theodore Ratisbonne's abjurationof Judaism and reception of Holy Orders.
The important points in the incident are the burst of remorse which Joan felt for her weakness and her striking retractation of the abjuration which had been wrung from her.
She said that all she had thus done last Thursday in abjuring her visions and revelations she had done through fear of the stake, and that all her abjuration was contrary to the truth.
Amongst the very judges who prosecuted her, many were troubled in spirit, and wished that Joan, by an abjuration of her statements, would herself put them at ease and relieve them from pronouncing against her the most severe penalty.
After hisabjuration just as much as at his accession, the League continued to exist and to act against him.
Abjuration 56 The Castle of Monceaux 91 The Castle of St. Germain in the Reign of Henry IV.
When Christina arrived at Paris, in 1656, she had already accomplished her abjuration at Brussels, without assigning her motives for it to anybody.
He joined the Grand Alliance, as did Denmark and Poland, whose new king, the Elector of Saxony, had been supported by the emperor in his candidature and in his abjuration of Protestantism.
The house, at the instance of Lord John Russell, resolved that he had not a right to sit until he took the oath of abjuration on the true faith of a Christian.
The ceremony of the King's abjuration was followed by a deputation of the Duke of Nevers to Rome, who, together with the Cardinal de Gondy and the Marquis de Pisany, was to offer the Pope the submission usual in such cases.
At length Henry decided to abjure the Protestant faith, and his abjuration was followed by the surrender to him of the chief cities of the kingdom (1593), including Paris.
The governor was the most zealous of all in seeking to secure the abjuration of the new religion.
A fierce fanatical desire to proselytise, to procure an abjuration of creed by every violent and oppressive means possessed all classes, high and low.
But now in the vain hope of retaining them, the most pertinacious efforts were made to obtain that abjuration of the faith which had been steadfastly rejected by the sufferers for so many years.
It was only with a view to be delivered from the military prison and transferred to the prisons of the Church that she consented to a formal abjuration of heresy.
Sceptic that he was, he could well understand a change of religion from motives of interest, but he distrusted abjuration through faith.
By one after the other, their abjuration had been made, and the priest present had offered what comfort he might to the men appointed to die.
But the King's assent to this, as also to an Abjuration Bill directed to the same object, had to be given by commission; for William was now already sickening to his death.
An Abjuration Bill of a somewhat less stringent kind was then introduced into the House of Lords, the debate upon which William personally attended.
It was alleged that her abjuration had been signified to Isaac Dubourdieu, of Montpellier, one of the most distinguished pastors of the French Church; but that, nevertheless, he had admitted her to the sacrament.
