Anti-Protestantism is bias, hatred or distrust against some or all branches of Protestantism and/or its followers, especially when amplified in legal, political, ethic or military measures.
The Protestants from the Tyrolean Zillertal valley who were forced to leave their home in 1837
"Down with Luther and his family" / "Long live the Pope" / "War on the protestant. Go to England. We don't want you" — Graffiti on a Protestant church in Figueres, Girona (1947)
Auto-da-fé of Valladolid, Spain, in which fourteen Protestants were burned at the stake for their Lutheran faith, on 21 May 1559
Piedmontese children forced from their parents (October 1853, X, p. 108)
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally
Anti-Protestantism
…and state as the Counter-Reformation. There were religious wars and, in some countries though not in others, eruptions of sectarian hatred such as the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, part of the French Wars of Religion. Militant anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by states and societies alarmed at the spread of…
Painting by François Dubois, a Huguenot painter who fled France after the massacre. Although it is not known whether Dubois witnessed the event, he depicts Admiral Coligny's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Louvre Palace to inspect a heap of bodies.
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Huguenots
Charles IX of France, who was 22 years old in August 1572, by François Clouet.
This popular print by Frans Hogenberg shows the attempted assassination of Coligny at left, his subsequent murder at right, and scenes of the general massacre in the streets.