Effrontés refers to heretical individuals appearing in the first half of the 16th century. These heretics denied the Holy Spirit, engaged in various superstitions, rejected baptism, and replaced it with a ceremony involving scraping their foreheads with a nail until blood flowed, followed by applying oil. This mark on their foreheads earned them the name … Read more
Apollonia of Leuttershausen lived during the time of the Reformation. She lived with her husband, Hans Geisselbrecht, in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Her story was published by Sixtus Agricola and Georg Witmer (Ingolstadt, 1584). Görres summarized it in the fourth volume of his *Mystik*. We borrow it from this great work.Hans Geisselbrecht was a scoundrel … Read more
Jacques Aconce (Italian: Jacques Aconce), a former Catholic priest from the Diocese of Trent, renounced his faith and embraced Protestantism in 1557. Driven by personal debauchery and disillusionment with Catholic doctrine, Aconce fled to England, where Queen Elizabeth I granted him a pension in recognition of his conversion. In gratitude, Aconce referred to her as … Read more