Four kings , five queens , at least seventy presidents and prime ministers , and more than fourteen leaders of other religions attended Participation , alongside the faithful .

The aftermath of the war Hostile_encounter ended Process_end `` convivencia '' ( `` live and let live '' ) between religions In the Iberian peninsula : the Jews were forced to convert Change to Christianity or be exiled in 1492 , and by 1501 , all of Granada 's Muslims were obliged to convert Change to Christianity , become Becoming slaves , or be exiled ; by 1526 this prohibition spread Dispersal to the rest Placing of Spain .

The Calvert family , who founded Creating Maryland partly as a refuge for English Catholics , sought enactment of the law to protect Defending Catholic settlers and those of other religions that did not conform to the dominant Anglicanism of Britain and her colonies .