Read an article in "Seeds for the Parish" about how Queen Elizabeth I of England "sealed the the deal on the Reformation." If anyone asked me for an example of Revisionist History," that article would fit the bill quite nicely. Just to set the record straight on some of the points lightly touched on in the article:
- Henry VIII (pictured above in tights and garter), who started the English Reformation, was no paragon of religious virtue. A slave to politics, his quest for an heir, and his own carnal lusts, he broke away from the Catholic Church to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Of his six wives, he divorced two and beheaded two.
- Elizabeth I persecuted Catholics, and had many tried for treason and executed. She even signed the execution order for her own Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Sir Francis Drake was a pirate and slave trader.
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