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Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Religion

Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Religion. By Mr RJ Huggins www.SchoolHistory.co.uk. What did people believe?. Both Catholics and Protestants believed that only members of their own religion would go to heaven.

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Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Religion

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  1. Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign:Religion By Mr RJ Huggins www.SchoolHistory.co.uk

  2. What did people believe? • Both Catholics and Protestants believed that only members of their own religion would go to heaven. • Each tried to convince the other to change religion in order to save their souls from Hell. • Hell was a place of everlasting torture.

  3. Source A

  4. Source B

  5. Source C Who has been sent to Hell in this Source?

  6. Why were there mass murders of both Catholics & Protestants? • Members of each faith believed that they could save peoples’ souls by getting them to change religion through torture. However Both Catholics and Protestants were prepared to die for their beliefs in order to avoid Hell.

  7. French Catholics Murdering Protestants in Paris • How has the artist made the painting look horrific? • Was the artist a Catholic or a Protestant? Why?

  8. English Martyrs • The execution of William Tyndale in 1536. He was executed for translating the Bible into English so that ordinary people could read it.

  9. The Act of Supremacy • Henry VIII had everybody who refused to accept him as head of the Church of England executed for treason. • These monks are being hung, drawn and quartered

  10. Cuthbert Simmons All you have to do is become a Catholic for the pain to stop.

  11. What effect did the burning of the Martyrs have during Mary’s Reign? ‘We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s Grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out’

  12. Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign? So although Elizabeth was Protestant, she inherited a Catholic country when her sister Mary died. How would Elizabeth deal with these religious problems during her reign?

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