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ON THIS DAY in REFORMATION HISTORY
11 July 1533 – Pope Clement VIII excommunicated King Henry VIII of England.
Henry was a Renaissance man, he was fluent in Latin, French and Spanish, an accomplished musician, theologian and Humanist scholar.
Yet, despite Henry’s strong loyalties to the Pope, expressed in both blood and ink, Henry did much to open England to the Reformation.
It was not so much that Henry embraced the Protestant Faith, as much as he came to reject the authority of the Pope over English affairs. Henry was determined to have a male heir to the throne, to protect England from going through the kind of devastating civil war that his father had come to power through (The War of the Roses). Henry ended up going through 6 wives, 2 of whom lost their heads as a result of losing his favour.Yet, England ended up officially Protestant, which was to a large extent thanks to Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s Chancellor. After exposing the corruptions and degeneracy of the monks and friars, Cromwell dissolved hundreds of monasteries between 1536 and 1539. Through this he also swelled the Crown’s treasury.
Cromwell also succeeded in gaining Henry’s authorization for circulating copies of the Bible in English. Cromwell succeeded in transforming the nation’s Catholic clergy into leaders of a Reformed Church of England. This was done carefully, and with much court intrigue…https://www.reformationsa.org/
history-articles/politicians- behind-the-english- reformation?fbclid= IwAR2IvJSipxZnbpUkQ7Fdq1zuWCAk XKLZLao5n9-XzACbnq-_ qwo7WR1yIaQ This Day by Day Calendar of the Reformation is taken from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book The Greatest Century of Reformation (available from Christian Liberty Books, PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, Fax: 086-551-7490, Email: admin@christianlibertybooks.
co.za and Website: http://www.christianlibertybooks.co. za. Dr. Peter Hammond
Christian Action Network
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Cape Town South Africa
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