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Longenecker and Pearce in Oxburgh\u2019s Priest Hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

My article <\/a>at Imaginative Conservative website this week considers the priest\u2019s holes which were created during the Elizabethan terror in England.<\/p>\n

If you visit Oxburgh Hall in England you can tour one of the ancient country houses occupied without break since 1482 by one of the most venerable Catholic families in England. Last summer, while leading a pilgrimage to England with\u00a0Joseph Pearce<\/a>, we visited the hall and not only met Sir Henry Bedingfeld\u2014the current baronet\u2014but celebrated Mass for the pilgrims in the ancient family chapel. This was not before Joseph and I discovered the priest hole.<\/p>\n

For those not in the know, a \u201cpriest hole\u201d is the secret chamber where, during the anti-Catholic Elizabethan regime, priests would hide from the Queen\u2019s agents. Under Elizabeth it was a capital crime to celebrate Mass, and any Catholic priest who was captured was sentenced to execution as a traitor, which meant being hung, drawn, and quartered. Elizabeth\u2019s England was a police state with rules and penalties worse than Stalinist Russia. Spies were everywhere, and the priests, who traveled underground using aliases, disguises, and secret codes, were usually betrayed by spies who had infiltrated the underground Catholic community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go here<\/a> to read the whole article.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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