Henry II severely persecuted Protestants under the Edict of Chateaubriand and when the French authorities complained about the missionary activities, Geneva was able to disclaim responsibility.

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

Protestants in Ireland, and the Anglo-Irish class in particular, were by no means universally attached to the cause of continued political union with Great Britain: for instance, author Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745 ), a clergyman in the Church of Ireland, vigorously denounced the plight of ordinary Irish people under British rule.

Some of the strongest and earliest support for the Legend came from two Protestants: the Englishman John Foxe, author of the Book of Martyrs ( 1554 ), and the Spaniard Reginaldo González de Montes, author of the Exposición de algunas mañas de la Santa Inquisición Española ( Exposition of some vices of the Spanish Inquisition, 1567 ).

John Foxe ( 1516 / 17 – 18 April 1587 ) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( properly The Acts and Monuments ), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I.

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, author of the book Hidden Ulster, Protestants and the Irish language, states that many of the settlers came from Gaelic speaking areas in Scotland and thus would have culturally meshed well with their new neighbours.

In the opinion of the author, it is an illusion to differentiate between the German right, center, or left, or the German Catholics or Protestants, or the German workers or capitalists.

When after a silence of some years she again in 1870 appeared as an author, she issued three compilations in French history, The Good St. Louis and his Times, The Revolt of the Protestants of the Cevennes, and Joan of Arc.

Edmund Hamilton Sears ( April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876 ) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants.

She offered very limited aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference abroad.

Bismarck sought to appeal to liberals and Protestants but he failed because the Catholics were unanimous in their resistance and organized themselves to fight back politically, using their strength in other states besides Prussia.

The religious demands of the Protestants were still unsatisfied, while the policy of toleration had failed to give peace to Austria.

After a " few dozen " Protestants had been executed in Spain in the 1550s, Protestantism failed to gain a foothold there and the conflict between the Christian denominations did not become an issue within the country.

Despite his support for the Protestants, he failed to stop the growing tide of intolerance, either in Poland or abroad, as shown by his failure to protect the Racovian Academy, or to mediate an international agreement between the faiths.

The Exercitationes in Baronium are but a fragment of the massive criticism which he contemplated ; it failed in presenting the uncritical character of Baronius's history, and had only a moderate success, even among Protestants.

The Protestants, however, failed to avail themselves of their opportunities, largely through the extreme docility and pliability of Philip.

When this failed, he sought to secure the neutrality of Bavaria in a possible war against the Protestants and proposed a new Protestant alliance to take the place of the Schmalkaldic League.

Although Spirituali occupied positions of high power within the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and may have even held the sympathy of Pope Paul III, they failed to achieve much change, and more conservative " fundamentalist " zelanti currents set the Church on a course of confrontation with the Protestants at the Council of Trent ( 1545-1563 ), lumping them in with them.

Since this time corresponds to the Thirty Years ' War between Catholics and Protestants in Germany, it is possible that the checking of Catholic power in Europe reduced the flow of funds to the Catholic missions in Japan, which could be why they failed at this time and not before.

As an advocate of union among the Protestants he took part in the conference at Marburg in 1529 ; but when the attempts to close the breach between Lutherans and Zwinglians failed, he presented the Confessio tetrapolitana, a Zwinglian document, to the Augsburg Diet of 1530.

As the young Edward VI's health failed, it was necessary to determine what should be done on his death, and a memorial was drawn up and signed by Sir William Petre in May 1553, under the direction of the King and the Privy Council, limiting the succession, in the interest of Lady Jane Grey, to Protestants.

Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teaching on salvation and divine grace.

However, beginning sometime after the Reformation, being born again has been predominantly understood by some Protestants ( of the " anabaptist " branch ) to be an experience of conversion symbolized by water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to one's own personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Every argues that " the disparagement of myth in our own civilization " stems partly from objections to perceived idolatry, objections which intensified in the Reformation, both among Protestants and among Catholics reacting against the classical mythology revived during the Renaissance.

Moderate Catholics felt that he had been a leading figure in attempts to reform the Church, while Protestants recognized his initial support for Luther's ideas and the groundwork he laid for the future Reformation.

He was one of the first proponents of the dialogue with Protestants, after the Reformation.

In Britain the rituals of Hallowtide and Halloween came under attack during the Reformation as Protestants denounced purgatory as a " popish " doctrine incompatible with the notion of predestination.

Icon of the Melanesian Brotherhood Martyrs at Canterbury Cathedral ( Anglican Communion ) With the Reformation, after an initial uncertainty among early Lutherans, who painted a few " icon "- like depictions of leading Reformers, and continued to paint scenes from Scripture, Protestants came down firmly against icon-like portraits, especially larger ones, even of Christ.

* During the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion, known as the Beeldenstorm in the Netherlands, Protestants destroyed traditional ( by then considered Catholic ) imagery in churches, including paintings, sculptures and other representations.

However, many critics of the Reformation, including Thomas More, associated Protestants with Lollards.

As part of the Catholic Reformation, Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 49 ) initiated the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 ), which established the triumph of the papacy over those who sought to reconcile with Protestants or oppose Papal claims.

The old Slovene orthography, also known as Bohorič's Alphabet, which was developed by the Protestants in the 16th century and remained in use until mid-19th century, testified to the unbroken tradition of Slovene culture as established in the years of the Protestant Reformation.

His early actions against the Reformation included aiding Wolsey in preventing Lutheran books from being imported into England, spying on and investigating suspected Protestants, especially publishers, and arresting any one holding in his possession, transporting, or selling the books of the Protestant reformation.

The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants.

All mainstream Protestants generally date their doctrinal separation from the Roman Catholic Church to the 16th century, occasionally called the " Magisterial Reformation " because the ruling magistrates supported them ; unlike the " Radical Reformation ", which the State did not support.

Maximilian's policies of religious neutrality and peace in the Empire afforded its Roman Catholics and Protestants a breathing-space after the first struggles of the Reformation.

In addition to these four mainstream branches, there are a number of much smaller groups which, like Protestants, originated from disputes with the dominant tradition of their original areas, but are usually not referred to as Protestants because they lack historical ties to the Reformation, and usually lack a classically Protestant theology.

This was during a period of religious tensions between Protestants and Catholics polities following the Protestant Reformation that culminated in the Thirty Years ' War.

It was a brief period of largely internal peace between the English Reformation and the battles between Protestants and Catholics and the battles between parliament and the monarchy that engulfed the seventeenth century.

By emphasizing the unrealistic character of " legends " of the saints, English-speaking Protestants were able to introduce a note of contrast to the " real " saints and martyrs of the Reformation, whose authentic narratives, they were sure, could be found in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

These attempts to form a consensus are not widely accepted among either Protestants or Catholics, so sola fide continues to be a doctrinal distinctive of the Reformation churches, including Lutherans, Reformed and many Evangelicals.

It was the chief view of Protestants from the Reformation until the mid-19th century.

At the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, many of the inhabitants of Montpellier became Protestants ( or Huguenots as they were known in France ) and the city became a stronghold of Protestant resistance to the Catholic French crown.

Protestants claim, however, that the Roman Catholic Church has added to the Deposit of Faith handed down by the Apostles, especially since the time of Reformation, such as the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary and Papal Infallibility, though Catholics can point to Biblical support for each.