By Brad Miner, Sr. Editor, The Catholic Thing - It’s assumed Vermeer embraced Catholicism before the wedding... But he was not thereafter merely Catholic-in-marriage-only. The faith mattered greatly to him, and this can be seen clearly in one of the canvases he painted between 1670 and 1672, Allegory of the Catholic Faith (the image below) or, as Protestant sources often refer to it, simply Allegory of Faith.