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Charlie Fenton
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’Known variously as the Holy Maid of Kent, the Holy Nun of Kent, and the Nun of Canterbury, Elizabeth Barton was born - if Dom Edward Bocking, the man who was to become her spiritual mentor, is to be relied upon - in 1506. But her birthplace is unrecorded and we have only local tradition to tell us that it was the village of Aldington, about 12 miles from Canterbury.’
— Jun 24, 2020 08:48AM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘And that Fisher did indeed believe he was encountering a divinely inspired seeress is beyond all doubt. Lawrence, in fact, suggests that the stern old bishop ‘wept for joy’ when he heard of the Maid’s revelations, ‘saying that he did give to them the more credence because that she had been with the King divers times and reproved him for his sins’.’
— Jun 28, 2020 05:09PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Francis Bacon, too, would note in his history of Henry VII’s rule how proceedings against heretics were ‘rare in this king’s reign’, observing that where action was taken at all, it was in most cases ‘rather by penance than fire’ - as, indeed, in 1498 when Henry himself converted a Canterbury heretic at the stake’
— Jun 21, 2020 05:45PM
