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Christine of Laudem Gloriae has some wonderful pictures, the like of which I have never seen before.
Under the reign of "Good Queen Bess", a law was passed prohibiting the
celebration of Mass, on pain of extradition. On a second offense, the
guilty priest would be sentenced to a year in prison, and on the third
offense, jailed for life. In some cases, the offending priest would be
put to death, usually by hanging, drawing, and quartering. Another law
was passed that punished with death any Catholic who should convert a
Protestant.
It was during this time that the Jesuit priest and
martyr Nicholas Owen was called on to design and build priest holes in
all the great Catholic manses in England. He spent the greater part of
his life doing so. (Read entire post.)
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5 comments:
thank you for sharing your post with christine...i loved it all! even if i could get over there, my wheel chair and i could never get so far down to see what you both gave me with video!
Glad you enjoyed the pictures, as did I!
Thank you for the link, my dear. Each time you link to me, I seem to get dozens and dozens of hits! You're a popular lady!
That's good to know! ;-)
Similar hiding places were built into houses in certain European countries where people were sympathic to Jews who were being sought out by the Nazis during WWII.
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