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sect | smaller religious group |
Annul | to cancel a marriage |
Elizabeth I | Queen of England who reached a compromise between the Catholic and Protestant practices of the Anglican church She insisted that the monarch was the head of the church |
Council of Trent | a meeting that was called to establish the direction that reform should take in the Catholic church |
Jesuits | a new religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola to combat heresy and spread the Catholic faith |
Ignatius of Loyola | a Spanish knight who became a monk and founded the Jesuit order that was dedicated to combating heresy and spreading the Catholic faith |
Canonize | recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church |
Scapegoats | individuals whom society can blame all their problems on |
Ghetto | the quarter of the city where Jewish people were forced to live |
Henry VIII | King of England who broke with the Catholic church over receiving an annulment with his wife from the pope |
Inquisition | a church court that used secret testimony torture and execution to root out heresy |
Teresa of Avila | a Spanish woman who founded her own order of sisters she was canonized by the church |
Queen Mary | was a Catholic leader who had thousands of Protestants burned at the stake |