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Even though the name of Fr. John O'Neill does not appear on the 1992 list of Catholic priests known to have served locally, [49] the local oral tradition alleges that he fell victim to the last killing of a Catholic priest at a Mass rock, which allegedly took place at Inse an tSagairt, near Bonane, County Kerry, c.1829.
During the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland that began under Henry VIII and ended only with Catholic Emancipation in 1829, the Irish people, according to Marcus Tanner, clung to the Mass, "crossed themselves when they passed Protestant ministers on the road, had to be dragged into Protestant churches and put cotton wool ...
Marrone set up "an opposing ecclesial community" (the Community of St. Peter's) in a vacant warehouse that is not a Catholic church building and is outside of the authority of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland after St. Peter's Parish in Cleveland was closed (it has since been reopened with a new pastor).
[1] Canon 3 of the ecumenical Fourth Council of the Lateran, 1215 required secular authorities to "exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics" pointed out by the Catholic Church, [2] resulting in the inquisitor executing certain people accused of heresy. Some laws allowed the civil government to employ punishment.
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house " fallen women ", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.
Irish Catholics were severely persecuted under Oliver Cromwell, their situation only slightly improving under the Stuart kings. The land settlements in the aftermath of these wars, and the defeat of James II in 1691, reduced Irish Catholic freeholders to a fraction of their previous size.
Nast was an anti-Catholic immigrant from Germany. Published 2 September 1871 in Harper's Weekly. Anti-Irish sentiment, also Hibernophobia, is bigotry against the Irish people or individuals. It can include hatred, oppression, persecution, as well as simple discrimination.
30 were declared venerable, of whom one, John Travers, was executed in Dublin and appears in Irish Catholic Martyrs. (So 315 were declared venerable, of whom 285 were subsequently beatified). 44 were postponed ("dilati") – 36 died in prison and 8 were postponed for other reasons.