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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2159647, member: 2844&quot;]Another reason why I think this was written from a Catholic perspective, is that the Protestants were unlikely to call themselves heretics.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a plea by Catholics who have already lost their churches and religious symbols. The &#039;cape (cap?) and cowl&#039; refer to a monk&#039;s habit, which had also been taken by the false heretics. The Protestants tortured and murdered all priests, monks and nuns they could find.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree that the crowned one has to refer to the pope. The pope had no army in the Low Countries. In this case he is a symbol of Catholic power, imo.</p><p>I think the crowned one was the king of Spain. The Dutch text has the word &#039;verradelyck&#039;, treacherous, which wasn&#039;t translated. The king of Spain was perceived to be treacherous when he had revolt leaders Egmond and Horne executed. That triggered the Dutch 80 years war.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 80 years war was originally a revolt against high taxes and for religious freedom, started by a group of noblemen led by Egmond and Horne, both Catholic.</p><p>The Dutch (including Belgian) Catholics were in a pickle when certain Protestant leaders decided to turn it into a religious war. Not all Protestants agreed with that, but they were often overruled by their militant allies.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Protestant-Catholic, north-south divide still has consequences to this day. It is one of the things that ultimately led to the independence of Belgium.</p><p>In the Netherlands, before 1848, Catholics were not allowed to have churches or any other visible sign of their faith.</p><p>The offical right of authorities to ban Catholic processions was only lifted in 1983, after pressure from the EU. Catholicism was the last faith to have full religious freedom in the Netherlands.</p><p>Another result in the mainly Catholic south was a mistrust of authority. The authorities were mostly northern and Protestant.</p><p>The perception was that authorities didn&#039;t understand southern culture, had a negative attitude towards their religion, and rarely had their best interest at heart. True, given the fact that it had to take the EU to overrule Dutch authorities regarding religious freedom.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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