- Reform movements take shape
- Church starts reforms
- Religious orders and congregations formed
- Peter Canisius, a Jesuit in Central Europe
- Jane Frances of Chantal
- The Inquisitions
- Index of Prohibited Books
- Portuguese Inquisition
- Witchcraft trials
- Stereotypes Fuel Witch Craze
The Catholic Reformation was a reform movement that took place within the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The movement is also...
Source: Renaissance and Reformation: Almanac, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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