Abstract

Pedro Calderón de la Barca exposed internal conflicts between the four religious groups that formed the anti-Catholic alliance, which led to the conversion of the attack from the Catholic Church to the Protestant, thus naturally highlighting Catholic orthodoxy. After failing to respond effectively to theological attacks by the Reformation camps in the first half of the 16th century, the Catholic Church dramatically embodies its response to the Protestant forces with confidence and composure in the 17th century. The play was designed to gain ethical legitimacy by adding to the issue of looting and slaughtering of the city of Tirlemont in Flanders in the year when the work was written. Calderón''s The Besieged Church is a sacramental act that appeared at the height of the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church during the Baroque period, representing a combative character based on doctrinal controversy.

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