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Description: Article by C.M.J.F. Swan in the 1957 Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report. Considers those Catholics who outwardly conformed, either by taking the Oath of Supremacy or by attending the government-mandated Protestant church services.
                                                           C.M.J.F. SWAN, Esq., Ph.D. (Cantab.), Assumption University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Within twelve hours on 17th November, 1558, two of the main and effective champions of English Catholic orthodoxy died: the royal cousins, Mary Tudor and Reginald Pole. They were, respectively, England’s last Catholic queen-regnant and Archbishop of Canterbury. Contemporaries realized that such a circumstance as these all but simultaneous deaths was pregnant with possibilities particularly in view not only of the Protestant Revolt which absorbed the energies of Europe of that day, but also of the character of the new sovereign, Elizabeth Tudor. Nevertheless, it is doubtful if many foresaw that the new reign would finally bring official England down so definitely on the non-­Roman side of Christendom. Such a resolution broke a theological tradition of Communion with the Holy See which lasted from the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 until the Henrician Act of Supremacy in 1535; a tradition returned to in 1553-1554, and again severed by the Elizabethan Parliamentary Acts of 1559.
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