Interesting video. It is heartbreaking to think of how decimated the English peasants were after the destruction and looting of the monasteries by Henry Vlll. Their whole way of life was upturned. The monasteries not only provided jobs and religion, but education, agricultural skills, health care, social and pastoral care. Their whole Catholic cultural life ended. It be one thing if the monks were replaced with Anglican monks but the social infrastructure collapsed. Interestingly, the 19th Century Anglicans started to form their own nuns. Today - the Anglican Church reconsecrated the Blessed Mother back to England. Walsingham is as an important Marian shrine again.
Interesting video. It is heartbreaking to think of how decimated the English peasants were after the destruction and looting of the monasteries by Henry Vlll. Their whole way of life was upturned. The monasteries not only provided jobs and religion, but education, agricultural skills, health care, social and pastoral care. Their whole Catholic cultural life ended. It be one thing if the monks were replaced with Anglican monks but the social infrastructure collapsed. Interestingly, the 19th Century Anglicans started to form their own nuns. Today - the Anglican Church reconsecrated the Blessed Mother back to England. Walsingham is as an important Marian shrine again.