Yes, and the tradition continues right up until today, via Pope Frankie, the gay caballero, truly a Pope for All Seasons and all sexualities and all Gods and all idols and all Sodomites and all Muslims; whatever it is he's your wild and crazy guy!
Yep, the Spanish
Yes the Protestant nut ball rulers were so much better.
Like the British rulers that for hundreds of years killed priest and Catholics that refused to renounce the Pope.
Like the French Revolutionary leaders that murdered 300 thousand of the Vendee because they would not renounce the Catholic Church.
After 600 years of war for freedom from the Muslim invaders I think that the Spanish reaction is reasonable.
In many ways it is kinder than the De-Nazification of Germany post WWII.