The Inquisition 1198-1700 (How many Baptists suffered death in the Netherlands?
The Inquisition was instituted by Pope Innocent lII and perfected under Pope Gregory IX. It was a “Church Court” established by the popes for the trying and punishing of “heretics” … a heretic being anyone who did not agree with Roman Catholicism. The lnquisition lasted for 500 years and was a time of indescribable horror. During all this persecution Baptist churches continued to exist. More than ten thousand Baptists suffered death in the Netherlands alone, from 1566 to 1573, under the ferocious Duke of Alva. (Ency. Americana, Art. Anabaptists.) Back to Top 17. The Reformation: Protest came from with the Roman Catholic church by the men listed below. From that came the Protestantism church. All Protestant churches had their beginning in that period. The conditions within the Catholic Church had become so corrupt that many voices were raised within the church in protest. Among these voices was that of John Wycliffe (1320- 1384), John Huss (1373-1415), Savonarola (1452-1498), Zwingli
