A few days in the midst of August sufficed for the whole work.

The number of churches desecrated has never been counted.

In the single province of Flanders, four hundred were sacked.

In Limburg, Luxemburg, and Namur, there was no image-breaking.

In Mechlin, seventy or eighty persons accomplished the work thoroughly, in the very teeth of the grand council, and of an astonished magistracy.
In Tournay, a city distinguished for its ecclesiastical splendor, the reform had been making great progress during the summer.