Mary I, who reigned from 1553-58, was a staunch Catholic and executed so many Protestants that she was known as Bloody Mary. She renacted the act that allowed heretics (non-Catholics) to be burnt to death tied to a stake.
The Catholic Church was never "restored" in England, the Church of England still owns most of its Churches, and its monasteries and convents were all converted to private homes in the sixteenth century. King George III was the first King, after the protestant revolt, to allow citizens to attend Mass.
from the website History of the Catholic Church in England (16th - 19th Century):
After Catholic worship became legal in 1791, most of the country-house chapels were closed and the missions moved to the nearest towns, following the shifts of population caused by the Industrial Revolution. So Catholic churches are now mostly in cities and towns and date from the last two hundred years. For a survey of them, see A Glimpse of Heaven by Christopher Martin & Alex Ramsey (English Heritage, 2006). At the same time, because of the French Revolution, the English colleges and monasteries on the Continent moved back to England. By the Emancipation Act of 1829 Catholics recovered most of the rights enjoyed by their fellow-citizens. In the 1840s they were much augmented by Irish Immigration after the Famine and by Tractarian converts from the Church of England, who included the future Cardinals Newman and Manning.
Catholicism.
There are two Monarchs known for trying to return England to Catholicism, Queen Mary I, who did bring the Church of England back into the Catholic Church, and King James II & VII who opened talks with the Pope to bring the Church of England back into the Catholic Church before he was over thrown in the Glorious Revolution. Also John Henry Cardinal Newman converted to Catholicism in the nineteenth century and did a wonderful job of explaining Catholicism to Anglicans.
Mary I (Bloody Mary).
Because of all the blood she shed to return England to Roman Catholicism
The objectives of the Spanish Armada were to overthrow Elizabeth I of England, return England to Catholicism, and stop English involvement in the Spanish Netherlands.
Mary was a Catholic and was trying to return England to Catholicism after Henry VIII's reign.
The most militant Catholic monarch in the late 1500s was Henry VIII's daughter, Queen Mary. She eventually became known as "Bloody Mary" because of all the Protestants she had killed because they refused to return to Catholicism.
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Spain and England opposed each other for numerous reason and it goes without saying that colonial expansion in the Americas made these countries rivals. This created rival trade networks that each of the two empires. The enmity between Spain and England was also religious. Spain considered itself the defender of Catholicism while England was proudly Protestant (Anglican Church). In its attempt to "end the impiety" they sent their armada to remove the English sovereign and put another in power who would return the country to Catholicism.
why didnt many convicts return to England
She beheaded her cousin (very reluctantly) because Mary was conspiring with a group of English catholics to have Elizabeth killed. If she had succeeded in this then she, Mary, would have become the next queen of England and the hope was that the country could then return to Catholicism.
they sent out slaves and rum in return for sugar spices and fur