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Lao-Tzu on His Buffalo, Followed by a Disciple, Giclee Print

Lao Tzu
b. fl. 6th century BC; Ancient China

Lao Tzu, a philosopher and central figure in Taoism, who espoused avoiding such circumstances as war, harsh laws and heavy taxes.

Lao Tzu attracted a large number of students and loyal disciples according to popular traditional biographies. It is said he left China riding on the back of a water buffalo.

Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, Burnt by Catholics at Oxford, Giclee Print

Hugh Latimer
b. c 1485; Leicestershire
d. 10-16-1555; Oxford (burned at the stake)

Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, was burned at the stake for heresy at the behest of Mary I. He, along with Nicholas Ridley and John Cranmer are called the Oxford Martyrs.

Hugh Latimer quotes ~
• “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.” FYI - Author Ray Bradbury used Hugh Latimer's words to Ridley in his book Farhenheit 451
• “The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”

Ann Lee, Religious Enthusiast, Giclee Print

Ann Lee
b. 2-29-1736; Manchester, England
d. 9-8-1784; Watervliet, NY

Mother Ann Lee is remembered as the founder of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also known as the Shakers, a religious movement that taught celibacy and female divinity.

Ann Lee quote ~
• “We [the Shakers] are the people who turned the world upside down.”

Pierre Lombard, Bishop of Paris, from the “Book of Sentences”, Giclee Print

Peter Lombard
b. c 1100; Lombardy (Northern Italy)
d. 7-20-1160; Paris

Bishop Peter Lombard (Petrus Lombardus), also known as Magister Sententiarum, was a scholastic theologian and author of Four Books of Sentences, a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and medieval thinkers, on the field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. Lombard's work became the standard textbook of theology in medieval universities as the first major effort to systematize commentaries and attempt to reconcile different viewpoints.

Peter Lombard quote ~
• “Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.”

Martin Luther & Philipp Melanchthon Giclee Print Lucas Cranach the Younger

Martin Luther
b. 11-11-1483; Eisleben, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, (Germany)
d. 2-18-1546: Eisleben

Martin Luther was a monk and theologian whose invitation, “out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light”, to publically discuss the Ninety-Five Theses (that he nailed on the church door of Wittenberg in 1517) for reforming the Catholic Church, changed the course of Western civilization. His theology challenged the papacy by holding that salvation was a free gift of God and unmediated by the Church.

In 1521 a meeting at Worms resulted in the Edict of Worms which condemned the theologian Martin Luther for refusing to recant his religious beliefs.

Philipp Melanchthon, née Schwartzerd, was associated with Martin Luther in the Lutheran Reformation.

• see Girolama Savanarola as a precursor of Martin Luther.

Martin Luther quotes ~
• “Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”
• “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
• “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

• Martin Luther at Powell's Books
• Traveler's Map of Germany, Poster