The Catholic rulers of Spain were Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon. They earned the epithet by being fierce persecutors of Muslims, Jews and heretics during the Spanish Inquisition and for having excellent relations with the pope, especially pope Alexander VI who was a Spaniard.
Columbus appealed to Queen Isabel I of Spain.
Philip II was a Catholic. Spain is a Catholic country
He was Roman Catholic
How did the Muslim rulers of Spain during the Middle Ages leave their mark on the country?
Spain's rulers backing the Inquisition
The Thirty Years' War began in 17618 in Bohemia. At that time the Protestants were rebelling against their Hapsburg Catholic rulers. The Protestants elected as their king the Count Palatine of the Rhine who was a Protestant. The armed conflict heated up at its beginning when armies of the Catholic princes and the armies of Spain intervened.
Because Colombia was colonized by Spain, and Spain was Catholic.
The Inquisition began in 12th-century France to combat the spread of religious sectarianism and to combat to heresy. The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was a Roman Catholic
Spain
The dominant religion of Spain is the Roman Catholic Church.
The principle religion anywhere in Spain is the Roman Catholic Church.