In Saxony Catholics and Calvinists were proscribed; in Heidelberg Catholics and Lutherans.

Why should either Calvinists or Lutherans be tolerated in Styria?
Why, indeed?
No logic could be more inexorable, and the pupil of the Ingolstadt Jesuits hesitated not an instant to carry out their teaching with the very instrument forged for him by the Reformation.

Gallows were erected in the streets of all his cities, but there was no hanging.

The sight of them proved enough to extort obedience to his edict, that every man, woman, and child not belonging to the ancient church should leave his dominions.
They were driven out in hordes in broad daylight from Gratz and other cities.

Rather reign over a wilderness than over heretics was the device of the Archduke, in imitation of his great relative, Philip II.