Sentences with phrase «catholic monarchs»

Get up close to the intricately designed façade of the Royal Chapel, then head inside to see the marble mausoleums and lead coffins where the remains of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabel, are housed.

Then, take in the intricately designed Royal Chapel and see the marble mausoleums where the remains of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabel, are housed.

The most important post − thirteenth - century Gothic styles in Spain are the Levantino, characterized by its structural achievements and the unification of space, and the Isabelline Gothic, under the Catholic Monarchs, that predicated a slow transition to Renaissance style architecture.

Christian antisemitism was prominently displayed by the Catholic monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand II and Isabella I, during the 15th century in their intolerance towards Jews and their persecution of conversos.

In the intervening years six crusades had occurred and ultimately failed, and for some of that time the Holy Land had been ruled by Catholic monarchs.

who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne.

Not exact matches

AT the time that monarchs ruled Europe and Russia the Roman Catholic church exercised power in all of the monarchies of Europe.

The reform of the Roman Catholic Church was deeply indebted to various monarchs.

After the rise of Protestantism, some of the monarchs who were most loyal to the Roman Catholic form of the faith, notably the fanatically Roman Catholic Philip II of Spain, were among the most emphatic in their insistence on the royal control of the Church within their realms.

As in France, so elsewhere, whether in Roman Catholic or Protestant states, the monarchs had succeeded in controlling the Church.

>> > FEB. 8 — BOYS HOOPS: St. Ignatius - S.F. at Archbishop Mitty - San Jose, 6:30 p.m. — As of Feb. 3, St. Ignatius had handed the Monarchs their only loss of West Catholic Athletic League action with a 48 - 40 win on Jan. 18.

The Monarchs opened their West Catholic Athletic League schedule with a 3 - 0 win at St. Francis - Mountain View.

No, the surprise might have been that this Mitty team had to overcome some obstacles, not the least of which was St. Francis, which won the West Catholic Athletic League regular season championship and defeated the Monarchs twice.

However, a Catholic would still not be able to sit on the throne, because the monarch also acts as head of the Church of England.

If the head of state could again happen to be a Catholic, and if Mr. Ratzinger completes a hard - right turn of the office he holds, would we want to have a monarch deal with issues of conscience of the kind: push my country towards conforming to Catholic dogma, abdicate or risk my soul?

Against the image of Catholic Monarchy, he ranges images of the hermetic monarch: he is alluding to a specific kind of political view and mode of debating which might built a righteous republic.

Left out of your mostly - thoroughgoing discussion of the topic is the monarch's legal position as the head of the Church of England, a position that prevents the monarch from ever marrying a Roman Catholic, let alone a HIndu or Muslim, all of which are minorities effectively marginalized by the monarchy.

At present, elder daughters have to give way to a younger son in the line to the throne; those who marry a Roman Catholic can't succeed to the throne; and all descendants of King George II can't marry without the monarch's consent.

The 86 - year - old monarch is on a two - day tour of the country where she visited Catholic church St Michael's.

The Commons» political and constitutional reform committee said moves to end a ban on the monarch marrying a Catholic opened up related issues about the Church's links with the head of state.

The change also limits the number of those in the line needing the monarch's permission to marry to six and allows anyone marrying a Roman Catholic to keep their place in the line of succession.

Secondly, it was agreed to abolish the rule which says that no - one who marries a Roman Catholic can become monarch.

«The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic — this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we have become.»

Two hurdles face any would - be royal bride or groom: the ruling monarch must give consent, and in any event neither party may be a Roman Catholic.