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The Acts of Supremacy are two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that established the English monarchs as the head of the Church of England

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                                                       Queen Katherine_of_Aragon The Acts of Supremacy are two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that established the English monarchs as the head   of the Church of England; two similar laws were passed by the Parliament of Ireland establishing the English monarchs as the head of the Church of Ireland. The 1534 Act declared King Henry VIII and his successors as the Supreme Head of the Church, replacing the Pope. This first Act was repealed during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary I. The 1558 Act declared Queen Elizabeth I and her successors the Supreme Governor of the Church, a title that the British monarch still holds. Royal supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty of the King (i.e., civil law) over the law of the Church in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Supremacy#First_Act_of_Supremacy_1534 Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy was repealed in 1554 during the reign of h

Historic event at UK's oldest living convent

Historic event at UK's oldest living convent https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/4762

The Story of Irish Martyr St Oliver Plunkett

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The Forty English Martyrs

  The Forty English Martyrs https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/132

Gospel in Art: Feast of the English Martyrs

  Gospel in Art: Feast of the English Martyrs https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/47089

St. Edmund Catherick and John Lockwood (priest) Blessed Martyrs

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Edmund Catherick (c. 1605 – 13 April 1642) was an English Roman Catholic priest . He is a Catholic martyr , beatified in 1929. Life Catherick was probably born in Lancashire about 1605. He was descended from the Catholic family of Catherick of Carlton, North Yorkshire and Stanwick, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Educated at Douai College, he was ordained in the same institution, and about 1635 went out to the English mission where he began his seven years' ministry which closed with his death. During this time he was known under the alias Huddleston, which was probably his mother's maiden name. Apprehended in the North Riding, near Watlas, Catherick was brought by pursuivants before Justice Dodsworth, a connection by marriage – possibly an uncle. Gillow states (IV, 310) that it was through admissions made to Dodsworth, under the guise of friendship, that Catherick was convicted. He was arraigned at York and condemned to death together with Father John Lockwood. The executi

Saint John Houghton Protomartyr of the English Reformation

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 Roman Calendar : October 25 Carthusian Calendar : May 4 Saint John Houghton Protomartyr of the English Reformation Born in Essex, England, in 1487; died at Tyburn on May 4, 1535; beatified in 1886; canonized by Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Saint John served as a parish priest for four years after his graduation from Cambridge. Then he joined the Carthusians, where he was named prior of Beauvale Charterhouse in Northampton and, just a few months later, prior of London Charterhouse. In 1534, he and his procurator, Blessed Humphrey Middlemore, were arrested for refusing to accept the Act of Succession, which proclaimed the legitimacy of Anne Boleyn's children by Henry VIII. They were soon released when the accepted the act with the proviso "as far as the law of God allows." The following year Father Houghton was again arrested when he, Saint Robert Lawrence, and Saint Augustine Webster went to Thomas Cromwell to seek an exemption from ta

The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Martyrs_of_England_and_Wales The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [ or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed between 1535 and 1679 for treason and related offences under various laws enacted by Parliament during the English Reformation. The individuals listed range from Carthusian monks who in 1535 declined to accept Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy, to seminary priests who were caught up in the alleged Popish Plot against Charles II in 1679. Many were sentenced to death at show trials, or with no trial at all. The first wave of executions came with the reign of King Henry VIII and involved persons who did not support the 1534 Act of Supremacy and dissolution of the monasteries. Carthusian John Houghton and Bridgettine Richard Reynolds died at this time. In 1570 Pope Pius V, in support of various rebellions in England and Ireland, excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, absol