How did Anna Bijns use satirical verse in religious debates?

In the context of 16th-century religious conflict, the Catholic poet Anna Bijns utilized her writing as a powerful tool for religious advocacy. She is noted for "fulminating" against Lutheranism through her glowing, satirical verse.12

Her work served as a prominent Catholic response to the Reformation, representing the religious tensions of the era before the final cultural and political rift between the Catholic south and the Protestant north. Her satirical approach was later countered by the Calvinist Philips van Marnix, heer van Sint Aldegonde, who employed his own polemical satire to attack the Roman Catholic Church.12