Posted on 11/01/2013 7:41:06 PM PDT by markomalley
arrogant bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Protestant_martyrs_of_the_English_Reformation
She wasn’t so popular with the Protestants that she had burned alive.
Do tell us all about the 9-day reign of Lady Jane Grey, hmmmmmm. As Cicero once famously noted, "when enquiring after a murder, one must always ask 'who benefits' (cui bono)
I get the feeling the author might like to burn and behead a few protestants.
The ones she didn’t burn and behead I guess
Besides, being Protestant was akin to treason - you know like being a German Jew in 1939, and sure Hitler has a bad rap now, but he was loved back then..
Oh, I’ve ran into a few around here.
This ancient history is what gets Catholics excited?
I didn't say there weren't Catholics slaughtered. Sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain was a savage awful place to live as was most of Europe.
rewriting, redefining it too
Neither was Liz popular with Catholics affected by her. But, as the article points out, during their reigns, popular opinion was on their side
In a matter of days we have gone from the Spanish Inquisition not being that tough and only punished bad Catholics to the Spanish pressuring wonderful, nice Queen Mary to burn the heretics and behead a 16 year old Queen.
That is a wrong analogy. Jews in
30 s Germany were not allies of a foreign enemy power as Calvinists were under Mary allied to the Prince of Orange or Catholics under Liz allied to the Hapsburg Emperor.
It gets historians interested. Most Brits won’t care. Also this is mot ancient history, that term is for times BC. I would just call it history or the foundation of the modern era ad from the 15 th to 16 th is when nation states were formed, culminating in WW2
Don't know about popular opinion. Some Catholic institutions were rebuilt during her reign with state funds. Benefactions to them remained low.
Perhaps people wanted to see if Mary produced an heir before they wanted to commit that much to it and possibly face repercussions from her successor who very well may not be Catholic.
Remember, she was only on the throne for 5 years and many people were just trying to survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England#Religious_policy
In the month following her accession, Mary issued a proclamation that she would not compel any of her subjects to follow her religion, but by the end of September leading reforming churchmen, such as John Bradford, John Rogers, John Hooper, Hugh Latimer and Thomas Cranmer were imprisoned.[112] Mary’s first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid, and abolished Edward’s religious laws.[113] Church doctrine was restored to the form it had taken in the 1539 Six Articles, which, for example, re-affirmed clerical celibacy. Married priests were deprived of their benefices.[114]
Mary had always rejected the break with Rome instituted by her father and the establishment of Protestantism by Edward VI. She and her husband wanted England to reconcile with Rome. Philip persuaded Parliament to repeal the Protestant religious laws passed by Mary’s father, thus returning the English church to Roman jurisdiction. Reaching an agreement took many months, and Mary and Pope Julius III had to make a major concession: the monastery lands confiscated under Henry were not returned to the church but remained in the hands of the new landowners, who were very influential.[115] By the end of 1554, the pope had approved the deal, and the Heresy Acts were revived.[116]
Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian persecutions. Many rich Protestants, including John Foxe, chose exile, and around 800 left the country.[117] The first executions occurred over a period of five days in early February 1555: John Rogers on 4 February, Laurence Saunders on 8 February, and Rowland Taylor and John Hooper on 9 February.[118] The imprisoned Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was forced to watch Bishops Ridley and Latimer being burned at the stake. Cranmer recanted, repudiated Protestant theology, and rejoined the Catholic faith.[119] Under the normal process of the law, he should have been absolved as a repentant. Mary, however, refused to reprieve him. On the day of his burning, he dramatically withdrew his recantation.[120] All told 283 were executed, most by burning.[121] The burnings proved so unpopular, that even Alfonso de Castro, one of Philip’s own ecclesiastical staff, condemned them,[122] and Philip’s adviser, Simon Renard, warned him that such “cruel enforcement” could “cause a revolt”.[123] Mary persevered with the policy, which continued until her death and exacerbated anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling among the English people.[124] The victims of the persecutions became lauded as martyrs.[125]
Reginald Pole, the son of Mary’s executed governess, and once considered a suitor, arrived as papal legate in November 1554.[126] He was ordained a priest and appointed Archbishop of Canterbury immediately after Cranmer’s death in March 1556.[127][128]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England#Foreign_policy
Furthering the Tudor conquest of Ireland, under Mary’s reign English colonists were settled in the Irish Midlands to reduce the attacks on the Pale (the area around Dublin controlled by the English). Queen’s and King’s Counties (now Counties Laois and Offaly) were founded, and their plantation began.[129] Their principal towns were respectively named Maryborough (now Portlaoise) and Philipstown (now Daingean).
Just the ticket for the Thanksgiving season, justifying the slaughter of the people that we celebrate in a couple of weeks. I bet the massacre at Deerfield, MA in 1705 must of giving you a warm feeling all inside. You must hate living in a country built by those people you wish slaughtered. Would you prefer a throne occupied by a Habsburg better than what the Founders (unfortunately for you, they weren’t burned at the stake) created.
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