Events from 1532

Fire at Sainte-Chapelle, Chambéry - Shroud survives - Silver reliquary melts, burns through folded cloth - Poor Clare nuns repair with patches

St. Ignatius includes Holy Face meditation in Spiritual Exercises - 'See in imagination Christ our Lord present before you upon the cross'

Alessandro de' Medici becomes first Duke of Florence - hereditary rule established, end of republic