Example sentences for: reformation

How can you use “reformation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The church of the Gesù, severe and relatively discreet on its own square west of the Piazza Venezia, was a major element in the Jesuits’ Counter-Reformation campaign.

  • From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.

  • Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, nephew of Pope Pius IV and Archbishop of Milan (1565–1584), was the exemplary spiritual leader of Italy’s Counter-Reformation.

  • Although the Reformation and Lutherism had an impact on Poland, the country largely avoided the devastating religious wars that raged elsewhere in Europe.

  • The nature of the Eucharist was a defining issue in the Reformation.


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