He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family was Roman Catholic.

Louis XIV was staunchly Catholic and he revoked the Edict of Nantes on 18 October 1685, undoing the religious tolerance established by grandfather, Henry IV, almost a hundred years before.

A staunchly conservative Catholic, he was having dinner with the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and the Nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli ( who would later become Pope Pius XII ), when he learned of the putsch.

Collins was nominally Episcopalian, while Finnegan came from a staunchly Roman Catholic family.

Harris, the fifth of nine children, was born in Limerick city, Ireland ( then known as the Irish Free State ) into a middle-class, staunchly Roman Catholic family.

A dedicated member of the Orange Order and staunchly Protestant, he famously stated, in April 1934, in response to Éamon de Valera's assertion that Ireland was a " Catholic nation ": The hon.

Schwyz remained staunchly Catholic following the war.

Bonnie was one of eight children from a staunchly Roman Catholic family.

Hagerty proved of value to the Socialists for his ability to appeal to Catholic workers on the basis of the social gospel, standing in contrast to the conservative church establishment, which remained staunchly and outspokenly anti-socialist.

Alan Campbell was born in Belfast on 6 August 1949 into a staunchly Presbyterian home, in a Roman Catholic area.

Henry's Act of Supremacy was repealed ( 1554 ) in the reign of his staunchly Catholic daughter, Mary I.

He had a Polish background and staunchly upheld the Pope's conservative views in the face of much hostility from liberal Catholic opinion in France.

Mitchel's staunchly Catholic New York family had been founded by grandfather and namesake John Mitchel, an Ulster Presbyterian Young Irelander ( Irish nationalist supporter ) who became a renowned writer and leader in the Irish independence movement.

Although the United Irishmen was a staunchly non-sectarian body which sought to unite all Irishmen, regardless of religion or descent many among their ranks were former Defenders, a term applied to many loosely connected, exclusively Catholic, agrarian resistance groups.

Georges Remi — who would become better known under his pen name of Hergé — had been employed to work as an illustrator at Le XXe Siècle ( The 20th Century ), a staunchly Roman Catholic and conservative Belgian newspaper based in Hergé's native Brussels.

Unlike their staunchly Anglican kinsmen, this branch of the Butler dynasty sided with the Roman Catholic Irish in the Elizabethan wars.

They were staunchly Roman Catholic and used their power to make Tixall a safe haven for Catholics.

Navarre was staunchly Catholic and much under clerical influence.

The village has seen frequent sectarian attacks, particularly in 2005 when several Catholic families left after attacks on their homes, and is considered a staunchly loyalist area.

New Slovenia has taken a staunchly Christian conservative position, advocating traditional social values and defending the position of the Catholic Church on moral questions.

It developed a theological stance which was staunchly liberal in matters of inclusivity but traditionally Catholic in matters of liturgy and the centrality and theology of the sacraments whilst believing that traditional restrictions on who may receive them should be re-examined.

The alpine cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Lucerne, and Zug remained staunchly Catholic.

Under the influence of Johannes Honterus, the great majority of the Transylvanian Saxons embraced the new creed of Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation ( almost all became Lutheran Protestants, with very few Calvinists ), while other minor parts of the Transylvanian Saxons remained staunchly Catholic ( Latin Rite ) or were converted to Catholicism later on.

She contacted his staunchly Roman Catholic father, James Stuart (' the Old Pretender '), and expressed a desire to secure a Catholic education for Charlotte and to retire to a convent.

King also staunchly enforced the “ dry county ” law once the residents voted to outlaw the sale of alcohol.

Considered a conservative and " Fundamentalist " association of Baptist churches, the Southwide Baptist Fellowship is not as staunchly devoted as other Baptist Fundamentalist Fellowships to the concept of absolute autonomy ( local church independence ) or the essential requirement of the King James Version ( KJV ).

* The Safari Team-The Hunt safari team, including Joro, Mali, Toto and Zulu the alsatian, plays only a minor role in this story, as their assistance is staunchly denied by King Ku, the Tsavo District Officer.

As part of a new development the Scottish king Alexander II claimed the Hebrides and requested to buy the islands from Norway, but Haakon staunchly rejected the proposals.

During World War II, Gunnar Myrdal was staunchly, publicly anti-Nazi.

During World War II, Mooney was staunchly opposed to Nazi Germany, once stating before a group of North and South American prelates, " A victory in this war for the forces of Nazi-inspired aggression would drive Christians underground for generations in the conquered countries.

Visigothic rule led to a brief expansion of Arianism in Spain, however the native population remained staunchly Catholic.

In " The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Run ," the staunchly democratic Doctor Hartman invites Bunter to sit down to eat together with himself and Wimsey, at the doctor's modest apartment.

An alternative view of these events was proposed by an American historian Stephen Christopher Rowell, where he believes that Gediminas never intended to become a Christian himself, since that would have offended the staunchly pagan inhabitants of Žemaitija and Aukštaitija.

Yockey himself did not have a very significant influence on the American extreme Right, however, which, throughout the Cold War, for the most part remained staunchly anti-Communist.

Grant represented the " hereditarian " branch of physical anthropology at the time, despite his relatively amateur status, and was staunchly opposed to and by Boas himself ( and the latter's students ), who advocated cultural anthropology.

Despite being staunchly in favor of reinstating the monarchy, President Grover Cleveland also reversed himself upon receipt of the Morgan Report, refusing requests from the queen for further aid in her restoration, and acknowledging both the Provisional Government and Republic of Hawaii as the legitimate successors to the Kingdom.

Using a first-person narrative style in the form of a " letter " to Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti-gay rights public servant.

Throughout the 1980s, Terre ' Blanche continued to present himself and the AWB as an alternative to both the National Party-led government and the Conservative Party, and he remained staunchly opposed to the reform policies of PW Botha to establish additional, albeit still separate, parliamentary chambers for non-whites, and to grant suffrage to Coloureds and South Africans of Indian origin.

In later years he showed himself staunchly opposed to the reactionary policies of the government.

However, after Stalin's death in 1953 Molotov was staunchly opposed to Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation policy.

However, 18 months after Labour lost power in 1979, the staunchly left-wing politician Michael Foot was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates ( including Owen ), sparking a crisis over the party's future.

The radical branch of the absolutists ( or royalists ), known as the Apostólicos, looked upon the heir presumptive, Carlos, as its natural head, as he was profoundly devout and, especially after 1820, staunchly anti-liberal.

Birney staunchly opposed this resolution and it was defeated, though a new resolution was soon after drafted and passed, despite Birney's opposition yet again.

It grew out of the John Reed Club as an alternative to New Masses, the publication of the American Communist Party, but became staunchly anti-Communist after Joseph Stalin secured his place at the head of the Soviet Union.

In an effort to promote a staunchly anti-racist and anti-fascist message, Axis of Justice allied with Anti-Racist Action shortly after its formation.

This region was one of the few ancestrally Republican regions of the South ; its voters had identified with the Republicans after the Civil War and had remained staunchly Republican ever since.

Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation.

According to Gary D. Murfin, who led a survey on Vietnamese refugees after 1975, the province was an area of particularly dense Catholic concentration, most of which was staunchly anti-communist.