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St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish San Ignacio de Loyola, baptized Iñigo (born 1491, Loyola, Castile. Spanish theologian and one of the most influential figures in the Catholic Reformation of the 16th century, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Paris in 1534.
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Pope Paul III
Paul III: Italian noble who was the last of the Renaissance popes (reigned 1534–49) and the first pope of the Counter-Reformation. The worldly Paul III was a notable patron of the arts and at the same time encouraged the beginning of the reform movement that was to affect deeply the Roman Catholic Church in the later 16th century. He called the Council of Trent in 1545.
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Council of Trent
Council of Trent, 19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, held in three parts from 1545 to 1563.
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Bloody Mary Counter Reformation
Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, has the misfortune of being remembered as ‘Bloody Mary’. The nickname implies that she was hated throughout the land for the burning of Protestants in her bid to restore Catholicism to England, but this was not the case. The nickname is the result of Protestant propaganda that portrays those burnt as heroes and Mary as an evil Queen.
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