So basically the Church of England separated from the Catholic Church around 1534
So i'm just asking if you know either the social or political or both of the costs of the separation
thanks!
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Thousands of people died from starvation, injuries, and sickness after the crown seized hundreds of monasteries and abbeys and killed or exiled the monks and nuns that lived there. These religious communities had supported the poor, injured, and sick in their areas. These places of refuge for travelers were also the only houses of healing for the common people. Nothing replaced this aid that was freely given to people in need.
The crown martyred hundreds of people and persecuted thousands who refused to deny their previously shared Catholic faith.
With love in Christ.
It started a 400 year long murderous rivalry between the British and Irish Anglicans and British and Irish Catholics
You mean "What was the political and social costs of the Catholic Church at the hands of a tyrant king Henry VIII"
BY NON CATHOLIC AND SECULAR SOURCES:
Elizabeth . . . is on record for the burning of two Dutch Anabaptists in 1575 . . . Henry VIII . . . had a score of them burned on one day in 1535.
(Hughes, 143)
Six Carthusian monks, a Bridgettine monk, and the Bishop of Rochester, St. John Fisher, were hanged or beheaded (the Bishop), some being disemboweled and drawn and quartered, in May and June, 1535, all for denying that Henry VIII was the Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England. (Hughes, 181-182)
Hugh Latimer, an English "reformer", had, remarks Will Durant, "tarnished his eloquent career by approving the burning of Anabaptists and obstinate Franciscans under Henry VIII." (Durant, 597)
Queen Elizabeth, writes Philip Hughes:
. . . enacted a definition of heresy that made life safe for all who believed in the Trinity and the Incarnation. But the statute left intact that heresy was, by common law, an offense punishable by death. An English Servetus could have been burned under Elizabeth, and, in fact, in 1589 she burned an Arian.
(Hughes, 274)
It wasn’t until 1679 that capital punishment for heresy was abolished in England, by an act of Parliament of Charles II. (Hughes, 274)
John Stoddard gives an account of Henry VIII, who founded Anglicanism:
. . . the murderer of two wives . . . and the executioner of many of the noblest Englishmen of the time, who had the conscience and the courage to oppose him. Among these were the venerable Bishop Fisher . . . and Sir Thomas More, one of the most distinguished men of his century . . .
When Henry began his persecution, there were about 1,000 Dominican monks in Ireland, only four of whom survived when Elizabeth came to the throne thirty years later . . .
Executions speedily began . . . At one time, . . . about 800 a year [roughly the last half of the 16th century]. Hallam [a Protestant] . . . says that the revolting tortures and executions of Jesuit priests in the reign of Elizabeth were characterised by a ‘savageness and bigotry, which I am very sure no scribe of the Inquisition could have surpassed’ . . . The details of these atrocities . . . would form very unpleasant reading for Protestants, accustomed as they are to think that all religious persecution has been done by Catholics. As Newman says:
It is pleasanter (for them) to declaim against persecution, and to call the Inquisition a hell, than to consider their own devices and the work of their own hands.
(Stoddard, 131-132, 135; citing Henry Hallam, Constitutional History of England, I, 146)
Stoddard chronicles further persecution in England — of the Dissenters. Under Elizabeth, Presbyterians, for example, were "branded, . . . imprisoned, banished, mutilated and even put to death. A few Anabaptists and Unitarians were burned alive." (Stoddard, 205) Anglican Bishops were silent accomplices and witnesses of much torture. (Stoddard, 205-206)
In Ireland, Bishops were executed by the English in 1578 (two), 1585 and 1611. In 1652 "an attempt was made to exterminate the entire Irish Catholic priesthood . . .
An Act signed by the Commissioners for the Parliament of England decreed that every Romish priest . . . should be . . . hanged . . . beheaded . . . quartered, his bowels drawn out and burned, and his head fixed on a pole in some public place . . . Finally, scarcely a Catholic prelate was left on the whole island.
(Stoddard, 206)
Dissenters in Ireland . . . also endured apalling miseries . . . Instances are recorded of Dissenters whose fingers were wrenched asunder, whose bodies were seared with red-hot irons, and whose legs were broken . . . Their wives were also whipped in public.
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2007/03/protestant-inquisition-reformation.html
If Henry VIII did not want to divorce his sacramentally married wife, marry his chippie mistress, steal Church lands and use the money to pay off his personal debts, England would still be Catholic.
England joined the Protestant Reformation, with the recognized church being the Church of England. Henry was appointed as its supreme head. The Catholic clergy were compelled to swear allegiance to Henry rather than to the Pope (some refused such as Sir Thomas More and paid with their lives). ALLEGIANCE IN ENGLAND WAS SWORN TO KING HENRY V111 as a RULER ( and monarchy still exists today) IN ENGLAND.. Queen Elizabeth 11
NOT THE POPE
http://www.squidoo.com/henry-viii
King Henry V111 Was a Great King who accomplished greatness for England
Henry VIII Accomplishments
The Military Accomplishments of Henry VIII
Religious Accomplishments of King Henry VIII
Political Accomplishments of Henry VIII
The Personal Accomplishments of Henry VIII
People and events in the Tudor Period
http://www.the-tudors.org.uk/henry-viii-accomplishments.htm
THE SPLIT FROM THE RC CHURCH GAVE HENRY V111 A GREAT KING MORE GREATNESS
AS A KING OF THE PEOPLE
Religious Reformers. The whole of Europe was ablaze during Henry’s time with the religious fervour of Reformation. Great reformers, religious and secular, called England home. Erasmus, scholar and monk, taught at Oxford, where he agitated for reform within the church. In his In Praise of Folly he lambasted the clergy for "observing with punctilious scrupulosity a lot of silly ceremonies and paltry traditional rules." Sir Thomas More, later Chancellor, wrote Utopia, a vision of an ideal society with no church at all to get in the way of spiritual understanding.
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Henry_VIII.htm
England is still a great country after years ions of Being a Monarchy and not Ruled by a Pope
Thanks to Henry V111
King David was a great King and Kings were chosen to rule in the BIble. not popes.
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That’s a good research question that could be the subject of a dissertation. It would require a lot of researching English history and a lot of subjective conclusions could be drawn which could be disputed either way.
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