Author: OSIMO P. Agostino da :
Title: Storia dei Diciannove Martiri Gorcomiesi dei quali undici appartenenti all'ordine de Minori Osservanti di S.Francesco...scritta per la circostanza della loro solenne canonizzazione...
Description: .: 4. Roma Tipografia Monaldi, 1867, in-4°, 30 x 22 cm, steel engraved frontispiece + (8) pp + 217 pp + (2)(indice), loosely inserted;''Official Decretum of canonisation, Rome 1865, Jan.VIII''. Contemporary full brown roan, covers decorated with central blind losange and gilt floral fillets, a.e.g. (back faded, larger scratch on back cover, but still an attractive copy). Original story of the lives and deaths of the 19 martyrs of Gorcum (Gorinchem) written by a Vatican professor, on the occasion of their canonisation nearly 300 years after their ordeal. The killing of 19 priests and friars at Gorinchem (Holland) during the Eighty Years War remained an important event which continued to influence the relations between the independent northern protestant Netherlands and the catholic and Habsburg dependant Southern Low Countries. .

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