schlesien-l - Nachricht 2001-02 00096

[>Gerd Mullenheim< <muellenh(a)pt.lu>]

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| Hallo liebe Listenteilnehmer und Mitforscher,
|
| Ich hoffe mal, über diese Listenkontakte hier vielleicht
| Leute zu
| finden, die sich mit der Geschichte der englischen "Reformation"
| auskennen
| (Wechsel von der katholischen Kirche zur anglikanischen Kirche.
| Konsequenzen,
| wenn man die Kirche nicht wechselte. Gab es Auswanderungen
| deswegen?) oder
| vielleicht englische Geburts-, Heirats- und Sterbebücher einsehen
| kann, die
| in USA (www.familysearch.org) gelagert werden.
|
| Viele Gruesse
|
| SASCHA  F I L P E
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Lieber Herr Filpe,

> Most people accepted the Elizabethan religious settlement of 1559,
but there were two groups who did not: the Roman Catholics and the
Puritans. The Roman Catholics were strongest in the North of England.
Elizabeth wished to leave them alone as much as possible. Laws were
passed to compel people to attend their parish churches; but they
were nor rigidly enforced, and some Roman Catholics continued to
have their mass in private. Events from outside, however, gradually
compelled the government to change its attitude. In 1570 Pope Pius V
excommunicated Elizabeth, absolving her subjects from obedience to
her and calling on other rulers to remove her. Most Roman Catholics
in England were reluctant to do as the Pope instructed, but his
action meant that now the government did not know who was hostile
towards it. Behind the papacy was Spain. Anglo-Spanish relations
were becoming worse, and it looked as if Spain might mount a Counter-
Reformation crusade against England.
In 1575 Englishmen who had been trained as Roman Catholic priests
in seminaries on the Continent began to land in England. Most of
these missionary priests wished only to minister to Roman Catholic
families, who had been deprived of the sacraments since 1559, but
the government inevitably suspected them of political intentions.
Mary, Queen of Scots, the Roman Catholic claimant to the English
throne, was now in England and, until her execution in 1587, was
the centre of continual plots against Elizabeth's life. Increasingly
severe laws were passed against Roman Catholics. The first execution
of a missionary priest occurred in 1577, and during the rest of
Elizabeth's reign about 200 Roman Catholics were put to death.
Some of them were saintly men, such as Edmund Campion, the Jesuit
who was martyred in 1581. Elizabeth always claimed that they were
condemned for treason, not for their religion, but it was difficult
to separate religion and politics. In the dangerous years before
the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the government felt bound
to take action against men who might be foreign agents, and priests
faced death if they merely remained in the country. At the end of
Elizabeth's reign the Roman Catholics had survived their persecution,
but their numbers were small.<
(Quoted from: Leonard W. Cowie, The Reformation, Hart-Davis London,
ISBN 0 298 12054 2)

Ganz herzliche Grüße aus Luxemburg

Gerd Müllenheim
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Suche Müllenheim / von Müllenheim / Mülnheim /
Milnheim u.ä. weltweit, besonders im deutschen
Osten zwischen 1650 und 1800. Danke im voraus!