Download or read book The Counter Reformation, 1559-1610 written by Marvin Richard O'Connell and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A competent Catholic scholar carries on an objective study of the determined efforts of the Catholic Church to reform itself, to stem the advances of Protestantism, and if possible to recover the lands lost to heresy in the earlier 16th century.