Pius V Excommunicates Elizabeth
February 25, 1570
In the bull Regnans in Excelsis, Pope Pius V declared Queen Elizabeth a heretic, released her subjects from allegiance, and encouraged Catholic powers to depose her. Elizabeth tightened her laws against priests and recusants. The line between Catholic loyalty and English treason was now a single knife edge. The bull forced English Catholics to choose between queen and pope, a dilemma defining their experience for two centuries.
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1569: Rising of the Northern Earls
- After: October 7, 1571: Lepanto
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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