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In 1531, the city authorities decided that the chapel should be torn down and replaced with a wool shed. Engel Korsendochter and her society protested against the decision. On 31 May 1531, three hundred women marched in protest against the destruction of the chapel and the increasingly Protestant sympathies in Amsterdam, led by Engel Korsendochter and the women of the Guild of the Holy Sacrament. The demonstration attracted great attention in contemporary Netherlands. The women were charged with four years of banishment or fines of 50 gulden for rebellion. The appealed to Charles V and defended their act as an act of defense for Catholicism. Most of them were pardoned.[citation needed]