Read the passage and answer the question. When the Counter-Reformation began, many Catholics became dedicated to spreading their faith. Catholic kingdoms in Europe began sending missionaries overseas to Asia and America. Catholic missionaries established schools, churches, and communities, called missions, as part of their work in the countries to which they had been sent.

According to this passage, Jesuit missionaries contributed to the Counter-Reformation by:

a. Improving the education of priests
b. Spreading the Catholic faith to new lands
c. Translating the Bible into the vernacular
d. Reconverting lands that used to be Catholic