<P> Unlike similar movements for religious reform on the continent of Europe, the various phases of the English Reformation as it developed in Ireland were largely driven by changes in government policy, to which public opinion in England gradually accommodated itself . However, a number of factors complicated the adoption of the religious innovations in Ireland; the majority of the population there adhered to the Catholic Church . However, in the city of Dublin the reformation took hold under the auspices of George Browne . </P> <P> Word of the Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s but never caught on . Its development was stopped by the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition and also popular disinterest . Not only was the Church highly aggressive in seeking out and suppressing heresy, but there was a shortage of Protestant leadership . No one translated the Bible into Italian; few tracts were written . No core of Protestantism emerged . The few preachers who did take an interest in "Lutheranism," as it was called in Italy, were suppressed or went into exile to northern countries where their message was well received . As a result, the Reformation exerted almost no lasting influence in Italy, except for strengthening the Catholic Church and motivating the Counter-Reformation . </P> <P> Some Protestants left Italy and became outstanding activists of the European Reformation, mainly in the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g. Giorgio Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, Fausto Sozzini, Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile), who propagated Nontrinitarianism there and were chief instigators of the movement of Polish Brethren . </P> <P> In 1532 the Waldensians adhered to the Reformation, adopting the Calvinist theology . The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant church in Italy . </P>

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