[Phsstpok]

Don't limit yourself to Catholics killed, however. Mary, Queen of Scots, was the advocate for restoring the Roman Church to supremacy and wasn't shy about the methods used. Though her forces generally favored burning the heretics as the preferred form of punishment, she wasn't called Bloody Mary for nothing.

Of course the Roman Church has a long history of bloody suppression of competing faiths (as do most all human controlled institutions that gain some form of temporal power). Limiting ourselves to just the British Isles there are the violent and murderous suppressions of pagan faiths and pre-Roman Christian traditions. Check out the history and historic ends of Iona and Holy Isle, as well as the burning of the Druids in their holy woods (though probably pre-Christian Rome, not Catholic Rome, in that case) as examples.

[Conservative4Ever]

I think you have your Mary's confused. Mary, Queen of Scots was not 'Bloody Mary'. 'Bloody Mary' was Mary Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, half sister to Elizabeth I. Mary, Queen of Scots was a catholic, but held at house arrest by Elizabeth until her beheading due to her betrayal and working in the background to claim the English throne. I believe Mary/Scots and Elizabeth were cousins of sorts.

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[what's up]

You are thinking of Bloody Mary. She is different from the Queen of Scots.

Alison Weir, a well-known writer on Tudor history says Bloody Mary's purges outnumbered those of her father (Henry VIII) and her sister (Elizabeth I) combined.

The Catholics were quite rabid in their persecutions back then as they were desperate about losing control. Also reference St. Bartholomew's massacre in France where Medici had thousands of Protestants slain.

[Kenny Bunk]

Relax. All sides burned their fair share of dissenters in Christian times. Check out the story of the Spanish priest Servetus, who was condemned to death as a heretic in Rome. He fled to Basle for refuge, only to be arrested and burned at the stake by Calvin's church, perhaps for not being the right kind of heretic, or not being heretical enough!

Sometimes, ya just can't catch a break!

[afraidfortherepublic]

Bloody Mary and Mary Queen of Scots were two different people. Bloody Mary was Mary Tudor and she was Elizabeth I's half-sister, daughter of Henry XIII's first wife, Katherine.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a cousin who had a claim to the English throne because many people considered Elizabeth to be a 'bastard' because they considered Henry's marriage to her mother, Ann Bolyn, to be illegitimate because he had divorced his first wife (Mary Tudor's mother) to marry her.

[sawyer]

Why did he add Cromwell into this? Henry the eight and Cromwell and More. I do not get that at all.

[katana]

Mary Queen of Scots was not "Bloody Mary". That title rightfully belonged to Mary Tudor, half sister to Elizabeth I, and her predecessor on the throne. Mary Stewart was never able to gain the English throne but if she had there's little doubt she would have been just as ruthless as Mary Tudor in stamping out Protestantism in England.

[Junior]

Except that the report deals with the number of Catholics killed. No group of people is entirely clean of evil, however, the question asked for specific information. You're attempting to turn this into a "well, they're more evil than we are" situation.

[LexBaird]

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was not Bloody Mary. That was Mary Tudor, Elizabeth's older sibling.