The petty squabbles, unsuitable marriages, love and laughter of family life were punctuated by dawn raids, sudden arrests and clandestine meetings. They lived in a state of siege, under constant surveillance.
Theirs in an enthralling tale of plots, priest-holes and persecution plated out in a world of shadows people by spies and agents provocateurs.
To follow the Vaux story - from staunch loyalty to passive resistance to increasing activism - is to see, in microcosm, the pressures and painful choices that confronted the Catholic community of Reformation England. God’s Traitors explores this agonising conflict of loyalty from the perspective of one Catholic family, the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. With every invasion scare and attempt on Elizabeth’s life, the danger for England’s Catholics grew. They were beleaguered on the one hand by a Papacy that branded Elizabeth a heretic and sanctioned her deposition and on the other by a government that saw itself fighting a war on terror and deployed every weapon in its arsenal, including torture, to combat the threat. Almost two hundred Catholics were executed in Elizabeth’s reign and hundreds more wasted away in prison. For giving refuge to outlawed priests - the essential conduits to God’s grace - they risked death. For refusing to attend Anglican services her subjects faced crippling fines and imprisonment. Elizabeth I criminalised Catholicism in England. You can read this before God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī true story of plots, priest-holes and persecution and one family’s battle to save Catholicism in Reformation England. Here is a quick description and cover image of book God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England written by Jessie Childs which was published in January 1, 2014. Brief Summary of Book: God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
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