Things changed in 1459, however, when the Ottoman threat became ever more looming. King Stephen Thomas asked Pope Pius II
for help, but the Pope responded that he would not come to his aid for
as long as the Bosnian Church was tolerated. The decision then taken by
Stephen Thomas made him the first Bosnian ruler to persecute people on
the account of their religion, a policy popes had long demanded from Bosnia's Catholic rulers.
In 1459, Stephen Thomas required the clergy of the Bosnian Church to
either convert or leave his realm. The exiles moved to the territory of
the King's father-in-law. The King proceeded to confiscate vast
properties and land belonging to the Church's monasteries. The
persecution all but destroyed the Bosnian Church by the end of Stephen
Thomas's reign.
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