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RELIGION

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1)
In Dorchester, England, in 1594, Catholic priest John Cornelius was arrested because of his struggle against Protestantism and despite being tortured for a confession refused to implicate anybody else.
He was condemned to die and while standing at the gallows he prayed for the executioner and the welfare of the Queen.
After being hung, his body was quartered and his head was nailed to the gibbet.

2)
In Exeter, England, in 1549, during the Prayer Book rebellion, Lord Russell's mercenary army destroyed the ill armed Cornishmen besieging Exeter.
During the fighting hundreds of innocent people were butchered after they had been captured by the mercenaries.
During this killing spree, Robert Walsh, the vicar at Exeter's church, was accused of having 'Popish' sympathies and was then dragged away, dressed up in 'Roman vestments' and hauled by rope up a high scaffold where he was hung in chains. His corpse was then tarred and left to dangle for four years.
It was later removed when Mary Queen of Scots took the throne and restored the old religion.

3)
In Old Cleeve, Exmoor, England, during the early 17th century, the village curate, Edward Trat, continually denounced his parishioners to the point that he made enemies of many of them. Several of them decided it was time to silence him.
One day when Edward Trat was riding through the parish on his horse, his enemies sprang from a ditch, pulled him from the saddle and stabbed him to death.
His body was then taken to his own house where it was dismembered, the head cut off and partly burnt, his arms legs and torso boiled in a vat and his intestines stuffed in a pot.
The murderers were caught though and on 24th July 1604 four of them were hanged.

4)
In Gloucester, England, on 9th February 1555, the Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, was sentenced to death by burning because of his Protestant beliefs.
Bishop Hooper suffered horribly during his execution because the wood on his pyre was damp and had to be relit a few times.

5)
In Gloucester, England, in 1586, the Blessed John Sandys was sentenced to death for his Catholic beliefs and was hung until he was was slightly unconcious.
He was then cut down from the scaffold and had sufficient strength to wrestle with the executioner while he was disembowelled with a rusty knife.

6)
In Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1216, a jewish man fell into the public latrine, but because it was a Saturday, the jewish sabbath, he totally refused all offers of help to get him out, expecting to be saved the following day.
When Richard de Clare, the lord of the manor heard about this he gave orders that the jew should observe the Christian sabbath "With the same solemnity he had done his own" and that no assistance would be given.
By sundown the following day the man had "expired in filth and stench."

7)
In 500 AD, the Catholic church deemed that all Celtic women were "Evil stimulants" whose unseemly parts of their bodies, particularly the ankles and the wrists, should be covered by hessian.
Eye contact between a man and a woman was rarely tolerated and a women simply smiling at a man could bring her a beating.

8)
In England, during the 15th century, The Bishop of Winchester, who worked during the reign of Henry VI, actually owned 18 brothels.
He never found that being a pimp as well as a spiritual leader was a problem but King Henry on the other hand did.
All of the brothels were closed down.

9)
In Wales during the 16th century it was found that 43 clergymen had their own concubines.

10)
The Inquisition, which started in the 13th century, was not actually abolished until 1834!

11)
For many many years painless childbirth was opposed by the church on the grounds that the pain was a part of women's punishment for Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden.

12)
Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormons, fathered 56 children.