As they move among the remnants of Valladolid's former royal splendor, tourists can consider how Spain might have developed had the Counter-Reformation not been so successful in suppressing the nascent Protestant heresy--or what might have happened had there been more men like Salcedo.

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The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.

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Salcedo's entry into heresy and its rarefied society--the rich had access to books and travel to the Protestant north--hinges on what most would consider obscure doctrinal points, such as whether one is saved by faith alone or by grace and good works.

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