Questions tagged [reformation]
A Christian religious movement in Western Europe in 16th. and 17th centuries as opposition to Catholicism, the Pope and clergy.
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How many people died in the British Isles from religious persecution between the 1532 and 1791?
The English Reformation was "a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church". It involved the ...
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Were princes and other large landowners motivated to support the Reformation by the frequency of Church holidays?
Church holidays or holy days were very frequent in the middle ages. Here is one link Medieval Holidays that testifies this:
"The rural population of the Middle Ages had their days of rest and ...
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Did Popes publicly call for any assassinations other than that of Elizabeth I?
According to encyclopedia.com, following on the Protestant Reformation,
In 1580, outraged at the deaths of Catholic missionaries, Pope Gregory XIII made a pronouncement that encouraged Elizabeth's ...
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What happened to Dirk Willems' family after his martyrdom?
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Dirk Willems
was a Dutch martyred Anabaptist who is most famous for escaping from prison, turning around to rescue his pursuer —who had fallen through thin ice while chasing ...
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Counter-reformation opposing “subservience of Church to State?”
The Catholic Encyclopedia's entry on the Counter-Reformation contains the following, which I found provocative:
For the principles of the Protestant Reformation are to Catholics principles leading ...
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Did Francis de Sales try to bribe Theodore Beza?
Source. The relevant quote.
Money, all-powerful in this poor country, seemed to him so irresistible as an argument, that he went to Geneva to try and buy over old Theodore Beza, by offering him a ...
