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The Pro and Anti-Catholicism within my Maternal Ancestry
Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom has its roots in the English and Irish Reformations under King Henry VIII and the Scottish Reformation led by John Knox. Within England the Act of Supremacy 1534 declared the English crown to be “the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England” in place of the pope. Any act of allegiance to the latter was considered treasonous because the papacy claimed both spiritual and political power over its followers. Ireland was brought under direct English control starting in 1536 during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. The Scottish Reformation in 1560 abolished Catholic ecclesiastical structures and rendered Catholic practice illegal in Scotland. Today, anti-Catholicism is common in peripheral areas of the United Kingdom, mainly Scotland and Northern Ireland.
For 500 years Protestants have attached Catholics, killing, maiming and all sorts unbelievable atrocities for these so-called sectarian conflicts of the past and present. As a researcher looking back on its history, one can see that the early Protestant hierarchy did not lead by example or what it preached, but instead became a bunch of sadistic murderer and anti-Semitic bigots of the first order. Their killings of each were just as barbaric as that of Catholicism. They were done to appease their God and their Church leaders.
The Barbaric death of Margaret Clitherow by Protestantism
Margaret Clitherow (1556–86), the Catholic-convert wife of a Protestant butcher in York, did all she could to protect her coreligionists. She allowed masses to be performed in her home secretly, and she also harboured priests there. Margaret fell foul of a law instituted in 1583 that imposed the death penalty for such crimes, and her sentence was to be pressed to death. Pressed, on her back, over a sharp stone, with a door on top of her that was topped with an 800-pound weight. It took 15 minutes for her to die. Margaret was not the only barbaric dead by Protestants.
The Welsh nation on religion has done the lot, they have partaken in Druidism, Celtic Christianity, Catholicism and Protestantism, today we find that most Welsh are non-conformists. Not many nations in Europe can match that, and certainly not on being the earliest nation in Europe to embrace Christianity. 8, Meanwhile these islands, stiff with cold and frost, and in a distant region of the world, remote from the visible sun, received the beams of light, that is, the holy precepts of Christ, the true Sun [sic], showing to the whole world his splendour, not only from the temporal firmament, but from the height of heaven, which surpasses everything temporal, at the latter part, as we know, of the reign of Tiberius Caesar [6], by whom his religion was propagated without impediment, and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesBritain/BritishGildasText.htm
6, those that read Roman history will know the Tiberius Caesar reigned from 14-37 CE.
Us Welsh are proud of our ancestral history; for me, it is the Tewdwr/Tudor and Gwyn/Wynn maternal ancestry. However, the Tudors were anti-Catholic, except for Queen (Bloody) Mary I (1553-58), who was Catholic and tyrannical. The Wynn family were Catholic before they eventually converted to Protestantism in the 1700s. As a whole, the Tewdwr monarch of the 16th-century showed unashamed hatred for Catholics and especially their priests. A policy, which led later Protestants to hunt Priest and their followers down in England, which is a sad chapter in our mother’s families history.
The Wynn’s, on the other hand, protected Catholic Priest. his can e seen in their ancestral homes, such as Castell Gwydir (The Glass Castle at Llanrwst); Castell Yr Waun (Chirk Castle) which is now National Trust, and Plas Mawr (Great Palace/Hall) in Conwy, which comes under Cadw* (means Keep). Which have the telltale signs of Priest Holes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPAU0N4Bvs Not only have the ancestral home survived the riggers of time—but they are also said to be some of the most haunted in Wales!
*(Cadw works to protect the historic buildings and structures, the landscapes and heritage sites of Wales.)
Today, throughout the world religious sectarianism raises its ugly head on a daily bases were one faith takes the life of an innocent follower of a different faith!
History has informed us that Christianity is a brutal and bloody religion, what do you think?
Cofion
Jero Jones
Article URL : https://breakingnewsandreligion.online/discuss/