2-715-113 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Electress Elisabeth takes communion after the protestant service, (1936). 'Kurfürstin Elisabeth Nimmt Das Abendmahl Nach Evangelischem Ritus'. Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1485-1555) received the Protestant communion in public in 1527, angering her Catholic husband, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]