Religious Practices and Popular Culture
Because the Protestant reformers attacked the Catholic Church, many big changes were made in religious practices. Among the things changed or thrown out were indulgences, veneration of relics and saints, pilgrimages, monasticism, and clerical celibacy. Many of the religious holidays went away after the veneration of saints was gone. Instead of ceremonies and processions, these holy days were replaced with private prayer and individual worship. The radical reformers even tried to get rid of many entertaining traditions, but these attacks did not work out very often.