 As the reign wore on, an increasing number of people turned against Mary and her government, and some people who had been indifferent to the English Reformation began turning against Catholicism.Writings such as John Foxe's 1568 "Book of Martyrs", which emphasised the sufferings of the reformers under Mary, helped shape popular opinion against Catholicism in England for generations.Pole died in London, during an influenza epidemic, on 17 November 1558, at about 7