Emergence of Catholic threat
- Created by: Luciieee
- Created on: 11-05-15 21:57
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- Emergence of the Catholic threat
- 1568 - English training college at Douai
- 1st official challenge to Elizabethan Church
- Haigh - "an instant educational success"
- 1575 - 11 secular priests arrived in England from Douai
- 1580 - 100 secular priests
- however, work of priests was rudimentary
- no infrastructural framework they could use
- had to work from homes of Catholic gentry and nobility
- sustained faith of gentry hosts
- did little to sustain faith of humble Catholics
- Couldn't seek converts
- Society of Jesus (Jesuits) begin mission in England in 1580
- had already re-Catholicised Lutheran parts of Germany and doing missionary work in Far East
- Historians have written lot about Jesuits - left lot of evidence of their activities
- Highly intelligent and dedicated to cause of restoration of Catholicism
- Edmund Campion captured and executed in 1581
- 1568 - English training college at Douai
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