THE MASS ABOLISHED. 315 rights as citizens, but all who favoured the old religion were removed from the Council, so as to put an end to all disunion there. So far the Council had kept the mob under control, and everything that was allowed to be removed from the churches was removed by smiths and workmen employed for the purpose ; but they heaped such insults on the images of the saints, and the crucifix itself, that it is quite surprising there was no miracle, seeing how many there always used to be whenever the saints were even slightly offended. Not a statue was left either in the churches, or the vestibules, or the porches, or the monasteries. The frescoes were obliterated by means of a coating of lime ; whatever would burn was thrown into the fire, and the rest pounded into fragments. Nothing was spared for either love or money. Before long the mass was totally abolished, so that it was forbidden either to celebrate it in one's own house or to attend it in the neighbouring villages. When I no longer feared the worst and there seemed reason to hope that no one's life or property would be attacked, this merciful course being recom- mended by CEcolampadius, notwithstanding new de- crees continued to be issued everyday by their synods, and so I began to think of moving, but without letting my purpose be known. I would have done so before Easter, but a violent stomach attack prevented me. Moreover I felt very anxious lest changing my resi- dence should be bad for my health ; I was rather afraid too that they would try to stop me on my departure, and accordingly I had procured from King Ferdinand two certificates, one inviting me to his court, and the other securing my safe passage through his own and the Emperor's entire dominions. First of all I sent

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there is a lack of legal ramifications for stolen objects which means that there is no infrastructure in place to facilitate their return.

She equated the planned museum with the reactor in Chernobyl, claiming that the bloody deeds of the past were being hidden away under a mantel of lead.

both through the destruction of the tangible and intangible

“monuments, religious or secular; buildings or groups of buildings which are of cultural value, either because of their architecture, homogeneity or place in the landscape, or because of their content, in the case of museums, archives or libraries; sites and movable objects (such as works of art, sculpture, manuscripts, books); underwater cultural heritage, including shipwrecks and underwater archaeological site.

“the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills that communities, groups, and, in some cases, individuals, recognize as part of their cultural heritage, together with the instruments, objects, artifacts, and cultural spaces associated therewith.”