Rise And Growth of the Anglican Schism

rly prosperous ; for both in peace and war no one was more distinguished than the emperor Maximilian, or more successful than the Catholic sovereigns : no one was more valiant or more prudent than Henry VII., who, victorious in all his wars, abounded in all manner of riches. Divisions were creeping in among the Mahometans, for Ismael Sophi, whose mother was a daughter ofHassoun Cassan, put forth a new explanation of Islam, and the people were the more ready to accept it because he had made himself king of Persia. The Saracens, who had held Andalucia for nearly eight hundred years, were driven out of Spain. The new world, opened to the Christian kings in the infinite compassion of God, had begun to obey the Gospel: the Portuguese carrying it towards the south, and the Spaniards towards the west, together with the renown of their respective nations, by authority of the Pope, Alexander VI.1 1 Maximilian I., born March 22, came king of Castille in right of his 1459; elected king of the Romans, wife Isabella, daughter of John II., Feb. 16, 1486; crowned April 10 of king of Castille. Isabella was born the same year; acknowledged as April 23, 1451, and died Nov. 26, emperor on the death of his father, 1504, before her husband, who, as which took place Aug. 19, 1493. He king of Aragon, died Jan. 23, 1516. was never crowned, and remained 3 Henry VII. became king Aug. emperor-elect, dying Jan. 12,1519. 22, 1485, and died in the twenty- 2 Ferdinand, son of Joh...