It unleashed an orgy of death and destruction across Europe.
In England alone, more than 800 monasteries, abbeys, nunneries and friaries
were seized, libraries were destroyed, manuscripts lost, treasures stripped and
works of art appropriated. Thousands of people were hung, drawn and quartered,
or burnt at the stake for their religious beliefs.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, the religious
revolution that swept across Europe, the leaders of the Church of England -
itself created in the decades of upheaval - have called on Christians to repent
for the divisions, persecution and death.
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