Lost sheep, mangy shepherds: the hellish days of Bishop Mathias Hovius (1542-1620)

1580. Protestant troops occupy cities and plunder churches. When the political tide has turned five years later, the laborious work of the Catholic Reformation begins. Mathias Hovius, Archbishop of Mechelen, is in the spotlight. The life of Mathias Hovius exists by the grace of nuns, canons, soldiers and beggars. His biography offers an overwhelming picture of the times, lifelike reconstructed by narrators with great empathy