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3 days ago · During the first year of Mary’s reign, many prominent Protestants fled abroad, but those who stayed behind—and persisted in publicly proclaiming their beliefs—became targets of heresy laws ...
6 days ago · Jon Marshall (@historyroadshow). 18 Likes. Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the second wife of James II and VII. Born in Italy, she wed James in 1673, becoming queen consort in 1685. Her Catholic faith and birth of her son, James Francis Edward, sparked fears of a Catholic dynasty, contributing to the Glorious Revolution. After her husband's deposition in 1688 ...
5 days ago · For example, St. Claude de la Colombière, SJ, the confessor of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, serving as chaplain to Mary of Modena, was arrested and held in prison for several months until exiled to France in 1680. His health broken, he died two years later on February 15, 1682.
2 days ago · Public alarm at James's Catholicism increased when his wife, Mary of Modena, became pregnant for the first time since James's accession. In letters to her sister Mary, Anne raised suspicions that the Queen was faking her pregnancy in an attempt to introduce a false heir.
- 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
- Anne Hyde
4 days ago · While the Catholicism of Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II) and Mary of Modena (James II’s second wife) is well attested, Anne’s confessional identity is certainly debated, which Dunn-Hensley acknowledges when she notes the ‘scholarly disagreement about the details of Anna’s conversion and about her confessional ...
2 days ago · King Charles II opposed James's conversion, ordering that James's daughters, Mary and Anne, be raised in the Church of England. Nevertheless, he allowed the widowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess. James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673.
3 days ago · Swedish state banquet. On the first night of their state visit, King Frederik and Queen Mary were hosted by King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia at a state banquet at the Royal Palace in ...
