 For example, in the 16th century, Transylvanian laws of justice separated the rights of Hungarians, Saxons and Székelys from the rights of the Romanians, while Eastern Orthodox became a tolerated religion (opposed to the four privileged religions - Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Unitariasm).During the Habsburg rule of Transylvania, in order to escape their inferior status, and in correlation with the Austrian interest to strengthen Catholicism, the Romanian Orthodox accepted a proposal for a "church union" (accepting Catholic dogma and retaining Orthodox ritual and calendar), but the other privileged nations objected and the status of the Romanians remained eventually unchanged.As a consequence, Romanian peasants would sometimes revolt and demand better treatment.