When Mary Tudor told people to Turn or Burn was she going to burn Protestants or Catholics?
Mary persecuted Protestants, and is known as “Bloody Mary.” Her sister persecuted Catholics, and is known as “Elizabeth the Great.” That shows the mentality of the English-speaking world toward Catholics. EDIT: “An act of Parliament in 1571 made it high treason to question the queen’s title as head of the Church of England—thus making the practice of Roman Catholicism an essentially treasonable act—and authorized the confiscation of the property of Roman Catholics, many of whom fled to the European continent. In the ensuing PERSECUTION, 183 English Catholics were put to death between 1577 and 1603; altogether, some 600 Catholics died in the PERSECUTIONS of the 16th and 17th centuries.” (emphasis mine) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi… Here’s one of those “dangerous people” that was put to death: Margaret Clitherow “She married (1571) a widower, John Clitherow, a butc
