1199: Innocent III bans reading the Bible in private.
1200: Innocent III sends delegation to burn French vernacular translations.
1229: Council of Toulouse banned Bible reading for all laypeople, whether in Latin or in translation. https://twitter.com/pegobry/status/1285850916810362880
1460s: Pope Paul II doubled down, forbidding all Bibles in vernacular languages (you know, the ones regular people could read).
1497: The Spanish Inquisition ordered the burning of all bibles in the vernacular, including Jewish.
The Council of Trent put both Luther's vernacular Bible and Erasmus' bibles on its banned books list, along with "all similar bibles." In response to the proliferation of Bibles through printing presses, Trent forbids selling or even owning Bibles without explicit approval.
At Trent, it appears that the majority of Spanish and French bishops opposed vernacular Bible translations. The faculty of the University of Paris helpfully explained that Bible translators are probably heretics because people reading the Bible are often heretics.
Trent also decreed that "He who reads or has read a Bible in the vernacular without such permission should not be able to receive absolution from his sins until he has delivered the Bible translation to the bishop." Just for *reading* a vernacular translation, no absolution.
In other words, "If you read a Bible translation, you will go to hell unless you deliver the copy to your bishop."

Anyway, that's just a brief list of fun events relevant to the OP. But guess who did nearly all the translating that bishops were so worried about? Protestants.
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