ELD4867361: Heresie of the Templars: representation of a ceremony of entry of a knight into the order of the temple, the Templar being, according to the confessions published after their arrest and trial in 1307, forced to deny Christ and to trample the cross during an initiation rite of the order of the temple after the confessions of the templars published after their trial in 1307) Engraving from “Les mysteres de la Franc-Maconnerie” by Leo Taxil (1854-1907), 1887 Collection privee, Mejanel, Pierre (b.c.1850) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4867327: An hanged man judged by the german free courts of Vehmic court (Vehmgericht, holy vehme), a “proto-vigilante” tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the later Middle Ages, based on a Fraternal organisation of lay judges called free judges) Engraving from “Les mysteres de la Franco-Maconnerie” by Leo Taxil (1854-1907), 1887 Collection privee, Mejanel, Pierre (b.c.1850) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4867323: Socinianism and Little Polish Church: the inhabitants of Krakow burn the works of Faustus Socinus (Faust Socin or Fausto Sozzini) (1539-1604) in the public square obliging him to attend the autodafe in 1598 (Socinianism and Polish Brethren: the burning of the books of Fausto Sozzini (Faust Socyn) italian ologian in Krakow, Poland, 1598) Engraving from “” The Mysteres of Freemaking”” by Leo Taxil (1854-1907), 1887 Private Collection, Mejanel, Pierre (b.c.1850) / Bridgeman Images