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As the fourth crowned monarch of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_dynasty Tudor dynasty], Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother. During her five-year reign, she had over 280 religious dissenters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning burned at the stake] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Persecutions Marian Persecutions]. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England Elizabeth I]. | As the fourth crowned monarch of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_dynasty Tudor dynasty], Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother. During her five-year reign, she had over 280 religious dissenters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning burned at the stake] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Persecutions Marian Persecutions]. Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England Elizabeth I]. | ||
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