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Excerpt from History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin, Vol. 1: Since the Reformation
The following introductory chapters may be found useful, in preparing the reader for the perusal of the history of the holy and illustrious Irish Catholic Archbishops who filled the see of Dublin since the Reformation. In this introduction, the first attempts to root out the ancient religion of Ireland, the unworthy arts by which the Catholic Church was assailed, and the evil effects of the Reformation, are brie¿y described, and a sketch is given of the long and cruel persecutions which our forefathers, emulating the constancy of the early Chris tians, so gloriously suffered for their faith, in the days of Henry VIII. And Queen Elizabeth. The sad condition to which the confiscation of Catholic property, the destruction of colleges and monasteries, the dispersion of the clergy, violence and penal laws - the offspring of a cruel and hypocritical despotism had reduced our country at that period, will explain why the see of Dublin was so long deprived of pastors during the sixteenth century. At the same time every Irish Catholic.
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