Bible Time with the Master Pastor

Why was Mary I (Mary Tudor) called Bloody Mary?

A) Because drinking raw vodka was gross?

B) In an effort to save Catholicism, she had about 300 Protestants burnt at the stake?

C) She was a war queen

D) A&C only?

E) None of the above?

ANSWER ?

B) The myth of Bloody Mary: Mary Tudor was nicknamed "Bloody Mary" because of her brutal persecution of Protestants during her five-year reign (1553-1558) in her zealous attempt to return England to the Catholic faith, she had nearly 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake , an era known as the Marian persecutions.