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16th-century anti-Protestantism

  • Babington PlotIn 1586, a plan to kill Queen Elizabeth I took shape in the shadow of deep religious division. The Protestant monarch ruled England while her Catholic cousin…
  • Spanish InquisitionIn 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull authorizing the creation of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition.