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In 1535 there were anti-papacy demonstrations in Dam Square and in 1550 an Edict of Blood was issued by the Spanish to hunt out the heretics.
But the threat of Lutherans, Calvinists, and other heretics shifted the emphasis to repression, culminating in the Counter-Reformation formally proclaimed in 1563.
During the Inquisition, suspected heretics were burned at the stake in this enclosure, and here Ferdinand and Isabella received Columbus in 1493 on his return from his first voyage.
France, dubbed by the pope “eldest daughter of the Church,” took the lead in the Crusades against the “infidels” in Palestine, stopping off on the way across Europe to massacre heretics and infidels.
Fund's denunciations of Gingrich apostates have the flavor of Stalin-era attacks on Trotskyite heretics.