Mary's Contribution To The English Civil War

minority within her realm must be forced into the line by whatever means necessary” (page VI,
The Chronicles of the Tudor Queens). This means she will make everyone in England to become catholic whatever it takes even if it means quickly killing people. The reason why she wanted everyone catholic was because she wanted her country strong, so by making them all be one thing, it will bring people together. This led to outbreaks of religious violence. This impacted the Protestants badly. Protestants were Christian. There were many Protestants in England.
They disliked the pope and Catholicism. Protestants were against Mary’s beliefs in making everyone Catholic. Many Protestants leaders fled to Europe. She authorized her government to …show more content…
Mary started to prosecute them because they would not agree to become Catholic. She would torture her subjects to get them to renounce their faith and save their souls. She believed it was her duty to take out heresy and save the souls of her subjects. Protestants had tried to replace her but they did not receive any support. England became disgusted by the suffering that many innocent people were buried.
She burned total about 300 Protestants at the stake for heresy trials. The public burnings made
Mary’s contribution of bringing back Catholicism into England a failure. Anne Commire said
“the popular sympathy cheated by these public burning doomed Mary’s dream to eventual failure while earning for her the rather unattractive nickname ‘Bloody Mary’” (Mary I, Anne
Commire). How society was left after Mary Tudor, the Catholic Church was continued in
England.

Mary lost her popularity because of her policies. And for that her choices made