Why did Mary burn people alive?

Answer 1

She didn't. Where in the world did you come up with information saying she did?! Mary, Queen of England, was a devout Catholic. Due to her persecution of non-Catholics, and her desire to have many burnt as heretics, she was known as 'bloody Mary'. The first in a line of very prominent executions in this manner was Lord Cobham. In those days heresy was a capital offense. The problem was, many of those burnt were only heretics in the sense that they disagreed with certain aspects of Catholic teaching or would not submit to the authority of the Pope. They were not heretics in the true sense of holding heretical doctrines like, say, Arius, who denied Jesus' divinity.

Answer 2

Mary Tudor was the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII and when see was born both her mother and father were Catholics. Mary was raised as a Catholic. When Henry decided to divorce Mary's mother, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, the Pope refused to grant him an annulment. So Henry split from the Catholic church and formed the Church of England. Henry raised his remaining two children, who later became Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward VI, in the Church of England faith. After the death of Henry VIII his son Edward VI reigned as the head of the Church of England, until his death at age 15. Mary Tudor claimed the throne and became Queen Mary I, as a lifelong Catholic she was deeply offended by what she saw as the heresy of both her Father and brother's beliefs and she reinstated the Catholic religion as the the state religion. Most of the people who were burned at the stake during her reign were followers of the Church of England faith who were now branded as heretics. After the death of Mary her youngest sister Queen Elizabeth I reinstated the Church of England as the state religion and then had Catholics burned as heretics.

Answer 3

I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure she did it because they were protestant and not catholic, she did it so she could purify their souls. I'm not sure if that's right but i remember that from my history class ^^