what religion is mary queen of scots?
Catholicism
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 Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and honoured in numerous Marian devotions . The Catholic Church has defined four Marian dogmas : the Immaculate Conception , the dogma that Mary was conceived without original sin ; her status , as the mother of Jesus , of Mother of God ; her perpetual virginity ; and her bodily assumption into Heaven at the end of her earthly life . 

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 Mary was eloquent and especially tall by sixteenth @-@ century standards ( she attained an adult height of 5 feet 11 inches or 1 @.@ 80 m ) , while Henry II 's son and heir , Francis , stuttered and was abnormally short . Henry commented that " from the very first day they met , my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time " . On 4 April 1558 , Mary signed a secret agreement bequeathing Scotland and her claim to England to the French crown if she died without issue . Twenty days later , she married the Dauphin at Notre Dame de Paris , and Francis became king consort of Scotland . 

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 When Mary ascended the throne , she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI : " Mary , by the Grace of God , Queen of England , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head " . The title Supreme Head of the Church was repugnant to Mary 's Catholicism , and she omitted it from Christmas 1553 . 

entailment
 In 1547 , Henry died and Edward succeeded him , as Edward VI . Mary inherited estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex , and was granted Hunsdon and Beaulieu as her own . Since Edward was still a child , rule passed to a regency council dominated by Protestants , who attempted to establish their faith throughout the country . For example , the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services , such as the use of Thomas Cranmer 's new Book of Common Prayer . Mary remained faithful to Roman Catholicism and defiantly celebrated the traditional mass in her own chapel . She appealed to her cousin Charles V to apply diplomatic pressure demanding that she be allowed to practice her religion . 

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 Mary was soon the focus for rebellion . In 1569 there was a major Catholic rising in the North ; the goal was to free Mary , marry her to Thomas Howard , 4th Duke of Norfolk , and put her on the English throne . After the rebels ' defeat , over 750 of them were executed on Elizabeth 's orders . In the belief that the revolt had been successful , Pope Pius V issued a bull in 1570 , titled Regnans in Excelsis , which declared " Elizabeth , the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime " to be excommunicate and a heretic , releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her . Catholics who obeyed her orders were threatened with excommunication . The papal bull provoked legislative initiatives against Catholics by Parliament , which were however mitigated by Elizabeth 's intervention . In 1581 , to convert English subjects to Catholicism with " the intent " to withdraw them from their allegiance to Elizabeth was made a treasonable offence , carrying the death penalty . From the 1570s missionary priests from continental seminaries came to England secretly in the cause of the " reconversion of England " . Many suffered execution , engendering a cult of martyrdom . 
