The seventeenth century in this kingdom was one long argument, fought with armies, about who ruled and what people were allowed to believe. Skalica felt all of it. Plague sat on the town from August 1645 to January 1646, and fires took whole streets in 1620 and 1639. The Lutherans finished building their own church between 1645 and 1650 and lost it in 1671, when the crown crushed a noble conspiracy and used the victory to seize Protestant churches across the kingdom. The Jesuits had already arrived in 1659 and begun their college in 1660: here the Counter-Reformation was fought with schools as much as with soldiers.Sedemnáste storočie bolo v tomto kráľovstve jednou dlhou hádkou — vedenou vojskami — o to, kto vládne a čomu smie človek veriť. Skalica z toho dostala všetko. Od augusta 1645 do januára 1646 v meste sedel mor a v rokoch 1620 a 1639 zobral oheň celé ulice. Evanjelici si v rokoch 1645 – 1650 dostavali vlastný kostol a v roku 1671 oň prišli: koruna vtedy rozdrvila šľachtické sprisahanie a víťazstvo využila na to, aby protestantom po celom kráľovstve kostoly odobrala. Jezuiti prišli do Skalice už v roku 1659 a o rok neskôr začali stavať kolégium — protireformácia sa tu viedla školami rovnako ako vojakmi.
