Jesuits, etc. Act 1584Status: RepealedText of statute as originally enactedThe Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, (27 Eliz. 1. c. 2) was an act of the Parliament of England passed during the English Reformation. The act commanded all Roman Catholic priests to leave the country within 40 days or they would be punished for high treason, unless within the 40 days, they swore an oath to obey the Queen.
John Gerard (Jesuit)John Gerard (4 October 1564 – 27 July 1637) was a priest of the Society of Jesus who operated a secret ministry of the underground Catholic Church in England during the Elizabethan era. He was born into the English nobility as the second son of Sir Thomas Gerard at Old Bryn Hall, near Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. After attending seminary and being ordained abroad, Gerard returned to England covertly shortly after the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Mass rockA Mass rock (Irish: Carraig an Aifrinn) was a rock used as an altar by the Catholic Church in Ireland, during the 17th and 18th centuries, as a location for secret and illegal gatherings of faithful attending the Mass offered by outlawed priests. Similar altars, known as Mass stones (Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Ìobairt), were used by the Catholic Church in Scotland, membership in which was similarly criminalised by the Scottish Reformation Parliament in 1560.
Edmund CampionEdmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast day is celebrated on 1 December.
Dublin CastleDublin Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction. It is located off Dame Street in central Dublin. Originally a motte-and-bailey castle chosen for its position at the highest point of central Dublin, it was mostly rebuilt, from the late 17th century onward, as a Georgian palace.
Penal law (British)In English history, the penal laws were a series of laws that sought to enforce the State-decreed religious monopoly of the Church of England and, following the 1688 revolution, of Presbyterianism in Scotland, against the continued existence of illegal and underground communities of Catholics, nonjuring Anglicans, and Protestantnonconformists.
Bounty hunterA bounty hunter in the United States is a private agent working for a bail bondsman who captures fugitives or criminals for a commission or bounty. The occupation, officially known as a bail enforcement agent or fugitive recovery agent, has traditionally operated outside the legal constraints that govern police officers and other agents of the state.
Oral traditionCulture preserved through speech or songA traditional Kyrgyzmanaschi performing part of the Epic of Manas at a yurt camp in KarakolOral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, beliefs, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry.
Elizabethan eraEpoch in English history (1558–1603)MonarchElizabeth ILeadersElizabeth IWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleyThomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of SussexFrancis WalsinghamRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of LeicesterFrancis Knollys the ElderSee others at List of ministers to Queen Elizabeth I.
Tridentine MassForm of liturgy in the Roman RiteElevation of the chalice after the consecration during a Solemn Mass celebrated by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint PeterMilitary volunteerA military volunteer (or war volunteer) is a person who enlists in military service by free will, and is not a conscript, mercenary, or a foreign legionnaire. Volunteers sometimes enlist to fight in the armed forces of a foreign country, for example during the Spanish Civil War. Military volunteers are essential for the operation of volunteer militaries.
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