Devotion to Christ During the Reformation

During the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church also had a reformation called the “Counter Reformation.” Many great saints like St. Catherine of Genoa and St. Francis of Assisi began to work for reform of the Church. In fact, many of the prayers of the Protestant “reformers” of that time sound very much like their Catholic counterparts. Prayers by Luther, Wycliff and many other early protestants refer to Christ as the crucified God and there are beautiful prayers to the suffering Christ that sound very much like St. Francis or St. Bonaventure.