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+== The English Martyrs ==
+During the so-called "Reformation," when English King Henry VIII established the Church of England as independent of the Catholic Church and himself head of the English church (1534), those who refused to renounce allegiance to the Pope were persecuted or executed. When Elizabeth took control of the Crown from her half-sister, the Catholic Mary (who had reversed some of the "reforms"), the persecutions amplified, especially after the Pope excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570.
+The English Reformation was driven by greed and power politics at the top of English society. The common people were predominantly faithful Catholics who opposed the changes. Several uprising of tens of thousands of common people were violently put down by government forces and those considered leaders of them were executed (see [https://catholic.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/saints_heroes/reformation/php/martyrs.php Catholic Martyrs of the Reformation]). Catholic worship was driven undergound, managed by heroic priests and lay people.
+=== Saint Nicholas Owen, builder of "Priest holes" ===
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 == The Desert Fathers and Mothers ==