6 1 6 Outlines of European History The prayer England to-day (see below, p. 639). Moreover, forty-two articles "Thirty-Nine of faith 'were drawn up by the government, which were to be Articles" ^^ Standard of belief for the country. These, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, were revised and reduced to the famous Fig. 215. Queen Mary, by Antoxio Moro This life-like portrait, in the Madrid collection, is by a favorite painter of Philip II, Mary's husband (see Fig. 218). It was painted about 1554, and one gets the same impressions of Mary's character from the por- trait that one does from reading about her. Moro had Holbein's skill in painting faces "Thirty-Nine Articles," which still constitute the creed of the Church of England. The changes in the church services must have sadly shocked a great part of the English people, who had been accustomed to watch with awe and expectancy the various acts associated
