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History 1
Challenges to the Catholic Church vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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indulgence | a promise to reduce time spent in purgatory |
Reformation | a movement that divided the Christian Church in Europe |
heretic | a person that disagrees with the official church |
Protestant | a group of Christians who broke away from the Catholic Church |
transubstantiation | the belief that Jesus Christ is physically present in the bread and wine during Mass. |
annulment | declaration that a marriage is invalid |
dissolution | the closure and sale of England's monasteries. |
litany | a prayer with set responses from worshippers |
communion | a Protestant religious ceremony in which Christ is present symbolically |
counter Reformation | the Catholic church's reposnse to the Reformation |
Jesuit | a new monastic order set up to convert people to Catholicism |
Regent | a person who rules on behaf of the lawful leader while they are ill or too young. |
Martin Luther | a former monk who started the Protestant Reformation in Europe |
Mary Queen of Scots | a rival to the English throne who fled there after her nobles revolted |
Guy Fawkes | a mercenary and explosive expert who tried to blow up the Parliament |
the Babbington Plot 1586 | an unsuccessful plot to kill Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots |
the Spanish Armada 1588 | failed invasion attempt organisaed by Philip of Spain to restore Catholicism in England |
the Gunpower plot 1605 | A Catholic plot to blow up Partliament , kill James I and place his daughter on the throne which ended in failure |