What a glorious time of rejoicing this is, when loyal Englishmen can enjoy celebrating a Sainted Lady of truly ancient and splendid lineage, and great personal sanctity!
And One who was the mother of the Most Eminent Father in God the last Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury! I refer, of course, to Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, last of the House of Plantagenet, martyred under Henry VIII in 1541. When news of her glorious martyrdom reached Reginald Pole, he rejoiced that he was now the Son of a Martyr.
Today, in dioceses including Clifton and Portsmouth, is her Feast Day.
She was the daughter and heiress of George, Duke of Clarence, Brother of Edward IV. The usurping Welsh house of Tudor naturally regarded her with envious hatred.
And not unnaturally. When the people of Cornwall and Devon rose in rebellion against the imposition of heresy in 1549, they issued Articles ... political demands ... which grew more and more ... definite ... as the months went by. In the Third such set of Articles, they demanded that "because the lord Cardinal Pole is of the Kynges bloode, should not only have hys pardon, but also sent for to Rome and promoted to be of the kinges counsayl."
But, in the Fourth set of Articles, there was more precision. " ... hys free pardon ... to be first or second of the kinges counsayl".
How that gang of heretics, crooks, and murderers round the Council Table must have trembled ...
Beata Margareta, ora pro nobis!!
Thank you Fr Hunwicke.
ReplyDeleteProvidential timimg and a joy to read - as always
Magister Johannes,
ReplyDeleteThis is highly relevant:
https://www.superflumina.org/king-richardiii-rise-house-tudor.html
So is this: https://au.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=Awr1TezQGJJits8Cexw25gt.;_ylu=c2VjA3NlYXJjaAR2dGlkAw--;_ylc=X1MDMjExNDcwOTA0NgRfcgMyBGFjdG4DY2xrBGNzcmNwdmlkAzBmMUNxVEV3TGpLT0FmVFhWN3AxMFE2eE1UQXpMZ0FBQUFEREo2YTkEZnIDbWNhZmVlBGZyMgNzYS1ncARncHJpZAMEbl9yc2x0AzYwBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNhdS52aWRlby5zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzgyBHF1ZXJ5A1RydWUlMjBraW5nJTIwb2YlMjBFbmdsYW5kJTIwTWljaGFlbCUyMEFibmV5LUhhc3RpbmdzJTIwQnJpdGFpbidzJTIwUmVhbCUyME1vbmFyY2gEdF9zdG1wAzE2NTM3NDE4MzI-?p=True+king+of+England+Michael+Abney-Hastings+Britain%27s+Real+Monarch&ei=UTF-8&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av%2Cm%3Asa&fr=mcafee&type=E210US91214G91641#id=2&vid=3cdde271fc8126e08fba895f402f3e2b&action=view
AvB.
Reginald Pole...
ReplyDeleteIf the course of history had run just a little differently, he might have been King -or Pope.
Such nobility of character, such elegant endurance in the suffering English Catholics at the time of the Deformation! May I suggest to you and your readers, dear Father, a (recent?) book that deals in a most Catholic way with the history of your blessed (and often troubled) isle? I refer to the inimitable Joseph Pearce's "Faith of Our Fathers. A History of True England," published by Ignatius Press. Vibrant, thorough, and accurate---a true joy for British Catholics and for Catholic Anglophiles everywhere.
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ReplyDeleteShe and her issue were excluded from the succession by the attainder of her father, weren't they?
ReplyDeleteAnd that can't be blamed on the Protestants, and happened under Edward IV - and to deny his title is in any event to deny hers.