ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A devoted Roman Catholic, she attempted to restore Catholicism there, mainly through reasoned persuasion, but her regime’s persecution of Protestant dissenters led to hundreds of executions for heresy. As a result, she was given the nickname Bloody Mary.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary remained faithful to Roman Catholicism and defiantly celebrated traditional Mass in her own chapel. She appealed to her cousin Emperor Charles V to apply diplomatic pressure demanding that she be allowed to practise her religion.

Detailed explanation-3: -She was a Protestant, but kept Catholic symbols (such as the crucifix), and downplayed the role of sermons in defiance of a key Protestant belief. Elizabeth and her advisers perceived the threat of a Catholic crusade against heretical England.

Detailed explanation-4: -She blamed the Protestant influences and particularly Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. She was a devout, sincere Roman Catholic. She wanted to restore the Roman Catholic faith. She wanted to restore the Power of the Pope in England (that is to make the Pope head of the Church in England and not the monarch.)

Detailed explanation-5: -Her reign as Queen was marked by her steadfast effort to convert England back to Catholicism from Protestantism, which had been established under her father twenty years earlier and then further intensified during the reign of her younger brother, King Edward VI.