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Article: Henry VIII and the Pilgrimage of Grace (1537).
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- Catholic Insight
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- September 1, 1997
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Two years ago, Hugh Loughran contributed two splendid articles concerning the period of the Reformation in England, "Easterweek, 1534" (C.I., April 1995) on St. Thomas More, and "June 22, 1535: St. John Fisher" (June 1995). Now he carries the story on to describe a popular movement to restore Catholicism in England and Henry's treacherous and brutal way of dealing with it.
During the study of A Man For All Seasons, a student asked me if Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More were the only defenders of the Catholic Church against Henry VIII. I told him of the Carthusians, and the other monks, priests, and laymen, but I forgot the largest, the most important, and ...