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Religious History and Current Affairs Come Together in the Luther Museum
21 August 2024
Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, was widely followed in Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, as much as a fifth of the city's population was Lutheran. The origin story of Luther's Netherlands comes to life in a beautiful museum, housed in a monumental building from 1772 that once provi
Antwerp’s Expunged Protestant Past
16 January 2024
Two Antwerp monks were burned at the stake five hundred years ago because of their Lutheran beliefs. They were the first martyrs of the Reformation. Their deaths remind us of a piece of the faded religious past of the Low Countries: Lutheranism and Calvinism first flourished in the South, with Antwe