German Catholic Aesthetics

St. Michael's Church is a Jesuits Church in Munich. Built in 1597 it is the largest Renaissance Church north of the Alps. St. Michael was the spiritual center of the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria.

Ora pro nobis

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the great Pope Saint Pius V • Oversaw victory at the Battle of Lepanto against Muslim forces • Published the Roman Missal and established the Tridentine Mass • Formed the Holy League to combat Ottoman expansion into Europe • Published the Catechism • Declared Saint Thomas Aquinas as a Doctor of the Church • Excommunicated arch heretic Elizabeth I and freed the Irish and other Catholics from allegiance to her in Regnans in Excelsis • Established the Feast of the Rosary • Cleaned up the city of Rome • Standardised the Hail Mary prayer

Another Romanesque Imperial Cathedral from the 11th century is the Mainz Cathedral. In the Eastern Crypt the Sudarium is kept.

The Speyer Cathedral dates back to the 11th century. It is one of three Imperial Cathedrals from the Holy Roman Empire. Pius XI declared the Church to be a Basilica minor in 1925. Today it is the biggest Church built in the Romanesque era. Altar today and in the 1920s.