Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles

In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years'' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic League. In the subsequent years the eyes of Europe looked to the fate of this erstwhile hub of the ''Calvinist international'', as Maximilian steadily moved to convert its population to Catholicism. Th...