Synod of Dort Wrapped Up 400 Years Ago

[Jerome]

Synod of Dort

"Synod of Dort, assembly of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands that met at Dort (in full Dordrecht) from Nov. 13, 1618, to May 9, 1619....Dutch Arminians were also called Remonstrants....Those who opposed the Remonstrants were the Gomarists, the followers of Franciscus Gomarus, a Dutch theologian who upheld a rigid Calvinism and had carried on a theological controversy with Arminius."

Did I miss it, or has there been hardly any commemoration of this, the 400th anniversary of the ascendancy of Gomarist dogma?

I did see James White was recently twittering from TULIP Central:

James White on Twitter April 25, 2019
Good evening from Dordrecht, Holland!

Was he the only one to make the trek? How are others celebrating?

 

[Jerome]

Executed in the Netherlands 400 years ago on 13 May 1619 as the Synod of Dort closed, a champion of the Arminians Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. He had been imprisoned for the duration of the Synod of Dort, and was beheaded for ‘subversion of the country’s religion’ shortly after the Gomarists’ form of Calvinism was adopted by the Synod.

 

[Jerome]

Two days later (400 years ago today) they turned their fury on the corpse of another champion of the Arminians:

Aftermath of the Synod of Dort • The Punishments

“The next sentence was pronounced on 15 May 1619 over Gilles van Ledenberg, who had been dead since the end of the previous September. Obviously, he could not be executed, but the judges declared in the verdict that he was ‘worthy of death’ and would so have been sentenced if he had been alive. His 'exemplary sentence' was that his embalmed body would be hung from a gibbet in its coffin.”