After the brief and disturbed period of Edward's minority and Somerset's Protectorate, the country enjoyed a true Catholic reign.

Whatever may have been the religion of Henry, there could be no doubt about Mary's.

Mary had only one use for Protestants, and that was to burn them.

Among her first victims were Latimer and Ridley, two bright ornaments of Christian faith and practice, who committed the deadly sin of believing that it was against the truth of Christ's natural body to be in heaven and earth at the same time.

To them soon succeeded Cranmer, the father of the English liturgy, not a man of unblemished character, but incomparably superior to Gardiner, to Bonner, or to Pole.