The Counter-Reformation was a rebuttal from the Catholics to seek internal reform and renewal. This reformation took place in the 16th and early 17th centuries and it was a response to Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation. This Catholic Revival, as it was also known, aimed to reaffirm the doctrine that Protestants were against to. For this reason, Catholics chose to support the authority of the Pope as well as the veneration of saints. However, they opposed to the sale of indulgences for the remission of sins, to tackle the problem that had initially begun the Protestant Reformation. Â