1 May 1572 A.D. Pius V (Michele Ghisleri) Dies—Rome’s 225th; He Put the Boot to the Neck of England’s Queen Elizabeth 1 & Excommunicates Her; He Also Put his Foul Boots to the Necks of the French Reformed Huguenots
1 May 1572 A.D. Pius V (Michele Ghisleri) Dies—Rome’s 225 th ; He Put the Boot to the Neck of England’s Queen Elizabeth 1 & Excommunicates Her; He Also Put his Foul Boots to the Necks of the French Reformed Huguenots; Of Course, Pius V was Canonized Graves, Dan. “Pius V Excommunicated Queen Elizabeth 1.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/pius-v-excommunicated-queen-elizabeth-i-11630017.html . Accessed 27 Sept 2014. During the Reformation, England broke away from the Roman Church. Mary Tudor briefly reestablished the connection, but when Elizabeth came to the throne, she saw that it was politically expedient (and perhaps morally preferable) to uphold the reformed church and did so. Like her father before her, she headed the English church through an act of Parliament, although her private chapel services remained more Catholic than Protestant. On this day, April 27, 1...