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with a religiouslike zeal, denouncing all doubters as either heretics or ill-educated bumpkins."
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.
But the threat of Lutherans, Calvinists, and other heretics shifted the emphasis to repression, culminating in the Counter-Reformation formally proclaimed in 1563.
I'm sure we all did the best we could, although many participants, absorbed with the idea of burning heretics, seem to have confused the C of E with the RC, so let's all reread Barchester Towers and study up on the Gordon riots, with our trousers down around our ankles.
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.