Elizabethan England: The catholic threat.

Question 1

what were the two types of catholic priest?

Answer 1

seminary and Jesuit priests.

Question 2

what was a seminary priest?

Answer 2

trained to support Catholics in England by leading mass services and hearing confessions of sins.
did not aim to convert protestants to Catholics.

Question 3

what was a Jesuit priest?

Answer 3

specially trained priests who aimed to persuade people to convert to Catholicism to deepen their catholic faith.
the first 2 in England were: Robert persons and Edmund campion.

Question 4

what led to the end of the catholic threat in England?

Answer 4

priests failed at converting people and they focused around London too much where they should of instead been focusing in the north and west.
no joint plan between priests on how they were going to overthrow Liz.
Mary queen of Scots, execution removed the most powerful catholic heir to the throne.
defeat of the Spanish armada ended the hope that a foreign catholic would come and aid English Catholics.
Liz’s spymaster Francis Walsingham had an effective spy network and informers that hunted down dangerous Catholics.