Lives of the Irish Martyrs

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The Minerva Group, Inc., 2001 - 264 pages
The Christian zeal and devotion of the founders of the primitive church in Ireland were only equaled by the great sacrifices and sufferings; endured alike by priests and people, during the fierce and bloody persecutions inaugurated by the Reformers under the sacred garb of religion.The fanatical followers of Mohammed propagated the doctrines of the Koran by the sword; but the Reformers, bloodier far, prostituted the name of religion, and glorified the sacred name of God with their lips, while they butchered his faithful ministers and people, or tortured them in mockery and sport.The persecution, which commenced under Henry, in the early part of the sixteenth century, gradually increased in intensity and cruelty, until it culminated in the middle of the seventeenth, in the most bloody and exterminating scenes on record.England readily embraced Protestantism, Ireland remained Catholic; hence, the war of supremacy and conquest carried on by the former was intensified by all the acerbity of religious hate and fanaticism; and though the roll of those who suffered death for the faith might be said to close with 1745, still the persecutions for religion's sake have come down to our own days.
 

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PERSECUTIONS UNDER HENRY VIII
17
THE CHURCH IN IRELAND UNDER EDWARD AND MARY
29
LEVEROUS AND OTHER BISHOPS PERSECUTED
47
MARTYRDOM OF BISHOPS OHURLEY AND CREAGH
61
FEARFUL INCREASE OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL OPPRESSION
73
THE FRANCISCANS PERSECUTED
87
PERSECUTIONS UNDER JAMES I
104
BISHOP ODOVANYS MARTYRDOM
114
MURROUGH THE BURNER
157
CROMWELLS CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND
167
THE PURITANS IN IRELAND
177
THE SWORD AND THE MITRE
188
THE IRISH EXPELLED AND HANGED
200
IRELAND UNDER CHARLES II
212
NEW PLOTS AND PERSECUTIONS
220
THE DAWN OF TOLERATION
236

CHICHESTERS TREACHEROUS PLOTS
124
THE KING AND THE PURITANS
131
FRESH PERSECUTION AND TORTURE
139
EXECUTION OF FATHER SHEEHY
243
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