See MEXICO: A. D. 1535-1822.
HOLY GHOST, The military Order of the.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1578-1580.
HOLY JUNTA, The.
See SPAIN: A. D. 1518-1522.
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HOLY LEAGUES:
Pope Julius II. against Louis XII. of France.
See ITALY: A. D. 1510-1513.
Pope Clement VII. against Charles V.
See ITALY: A. D. 1523-1527.
German Catholic princes against the Protestant League of
Smalcald.
See GERMANY: A. D. 1533-1546.
Spain, Venice and Pope Pius V. against the Turks.
See TURKS: A. D. 1566-1571.
Of the Catholic party in the Religious Wars of France.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1576-1585, to 1593-1598.
Pope Innocent XI., the Emperor, Venice, Poland and Russia
against the Turks.
See TURKS: A. D. 1684-1696.
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HOLY LION, Battle of the (1568).
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1568-1572.
HOLY OFFICE, The.
See INQUISITION: A. D. 1203-1525.
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE:
Its origin.
See ROMAN EMPIRE, THE HOLY: A. D. 963.
Its extinction.
See GERMANY: A. D. 1805-1806.
HOLY ROOD OF SCOTLAND, The.
"A certified fragment of the true cross preserved in a shrine
of gold or silver gilt. It was brought over by St. Margaret,
and left as a sacred legacy to her descendants and their
kingdom. … The rood had been the sanctifying relic round
which King David I. raised the house of canons regular of the
Holy Rood, devoted to the rule of St. Augustin, at Edinburgh.
The kings of Scotland afterwards found it so convenient to
frequent this religious house that they built alongside of it
a royal residence or palace, well known to the world as
Holyrood House."
_J. H. Burton,
History of Scotland,
chapter 20 (volume 2)._
The Holy Rood, or Black Rood as it was sometimes called, was
carried away from Scotland, along with the "coronation stone,"
by Edward I. of England, afterwards got back by treaty, and
then lost again at the battle of Neville's Cross, from which
it went as a trophy to Durham Abbey.
HOLY WAR, Mahometan.
See DAR-UL-ISLAM.