What was Bloody Mary's effect on the church?

Answer 1

Very Bloody.

Answer 2

Mary immediately went to work bringing the Roman Catholic faith back to England. She initially did this by rescinding the religious proclamations of Edward VI, and replacing them with old English laws enforcing heresy against the Church. In carrying out the last action, Mary earned her nickname, "Bloody Mary," because during her reign, she had more than 300 persons burned at the stake for heresy. Among them was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer. Chiefly because of her support of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, she was never really able to gain the support of nobles and most of her countrymen.

Answer 3

It depends which church you mean. As the only sensible answerer so far has shown, Mary's support for the Catholic church ended up having the opposite effect of what she wanted. Her persecution of non-Catholics changed public perception of them. Whereas before, they were generally regarded as rather odd and cranky, their courage and unwavering faith even as they were being tortured and burned to death by Catholic authority, brought new respect for them and interest in their views. So they went from being cranks to martyrs. And remember that the average 16th century person regarded religion as a very serious matter. Jane Grey was a famous hardline Protestant and there is a famous story about an encounter between her and Mary before Mary became Queen. Jane was staying in Mary's household and entered the chapel where there was a light shining to show that the Blessed Sacrament was reserved on the altar. One of Mary's ladies made a deep curtsey to the altar, upon which Jane asked "Is the Princess in the chapel?" The lady replied rather reproachfully "No, madam. I curtsey to Our Lord who made us." Jane (referring to the fact that the Sacrament was made of bread) replied sarcastically "But the baker made Him!" To us this would be terribly rude, an unforgivable insult to another person's faith. But to 16th century Protestants, it was a wonderful thing to say and "put the Catholic in her place". It would have been regarded as more than justified, in fact, the duty of a good Christian to attack Catholic idolatry.

Mary's violent legacy helped to provide much public support after her death for the new Church of England, and her heritage lives on in the statute books of the UK, in that no Catholic may ascend the throne of England.

Answer 4

Drink 5 or six Bloody Marys and you will see god.

Answer 5

Bloody Mary is a halloween scare tale about looking in the mirror and saying her name and seeing her.

The VIRGIN Mary is the mother of God, the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Angels and a very important figure.