Vatican Assassins

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Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603 #29
Protestant Queen of England, 1558 – 1603
A woman with the intellect of one hundred ordinary kings, speaking seven
languages and encouraging the Protestant Reformation, Elizabeth boldly
expelled the Society of Jesus from England in 1579, 1581, 1586, and in
1602, the year before her death. Aware of the Order’s plots and agitations
among Catholics, the Queen ordered the immediate execution of any Jesuit
found within her borders. Decreed a “heretic” and excommunicated by
Pope Pius V, the Jesuits sought to assassinate her many times. But the
risen Son of God spared her life using her faithful courtiers, the greatest
being Edward de Vere, her beloved Earl and Lord Great Chamberlain.
Miraculously, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years with the aid of her
Puritan advisor, Francis Walsingham, and laid the foundation for the
Lord’s Protestant English Bible and the Protestant British Empire.
This Star of England, Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, (New York: Coward-McCann,
Inc., 1952).
The Jesuits – 1588