[Wallace T.]

If Catholics were martyred in the 15th Century, it certainly was not by Protestants, as the Reformation did not begin until the 16th Century. The Roundheads were brutal, especially in Ireland, but do not forget that the Catholics in that country had previously engaged in anti-Protestant pogroms, with thousands, even newborns, murdered, often in gruesome manners, by Catholic mobs. Cromwell and the Roundheads were cruel and vindictive, of course, but so were their opponents.

[wideawake]

do not forget that the Catholics in that country had previously engaged in anti-Protestant pogroms, with thousands, even newborns, murdered, often in gruesome manners, by Catholic mobs

Complete and utter lies.

[steve8714]

...and so we mention both. These were political as well as religious as the ruling class in the middle ages always saw the Church as a way to subjugate the common folk. In the 15th century it was Moslems killing Catholics; in the 16th the German princes and Henry got into the act.