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To contend with the scale of religious division and the turmoil it caused in European states, both Catholic and Protestant rulers eventually abandoned violent repressive measures, most of which had proven ineffective. They instead imagined policies of reconciliation and pacification that would restore civil order and rebuild, over more or less the long-term, the religious unity that was vital to the health of the sovereign and his subjects. After the failure of initial solutions for doctrinal rapprochement, authorities made civil peace into a political prerequisite for religious unification.
