Posted on 12/01/2016 2:00:42 PM PST by fishtank
Scans give 3D look at Coughton Court’s priest hole
By Chris Smith - 30th November 2016 1 1694
One of the 3D images of the priest hole at Coughton Court which have been produced by researchers at the University of Nottingham. THE first 3D images of a hiding-hole at Coughton Court that was used by 17th-century Catholic priests escaping religious persecution have been created by university researchers.
The priest hole was first discovered in the 1850s in Coughton – a key building in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – hidden in a turret of the main gatehouse, concealed between the floor levels. It still had a rope ladder, some bedding and a portable altar.But new scanning technology has allowed a research team from the University of Nottingham to make a laser scan of the double-level priest hole with the aim of digitally reproducing its location in a computer model.
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From the article:
"Following the English Reformation, Catholics were forced to make difficult choices between their loyalty to the Crown and to their faith. As a result, many wealthy Catholics cleverly redesigned their country homes to include secret spaces known as ‘priest holes’."
This has NOTHING to do with post-Vatican 2 heresies,
molestations,
or the latest blitherings of the crypto-Jesuit-commie pope.
/sarc
Catholic ping!
Sounds vaguely obscene...............
Yes ... some of the things the English reformers did were obscene. As the article states, these ‘priest holes’ were a response to obscene tyranny.
Indeed.
But there were no clean hands in that struggle. "Bloody Mary" didn't get her name for nothing, and she was Catholic.
English History Ping.
As you say ... and "Good Queen Bess" has a name she doesn't deserve. And Henry was a pig.
It was a bloody mess all around; one of the reasons I'm glad we don't have a monarchy in these United States ... and that we have the Second Amendment.
I found that funny. Wouldn't Tudor authorities be on the look-out for someone like that? Probably something you wouldn't want too much notoriety for.
Reply : #5
*Yes ... some of the things the English reformers did were obscene. As the article states, these ‘priest holes’ were a response to obscene tyranny.*
Exactly. And Black ‘47 was NOT a famine, it was intentional GENOCIDE! Google IT...
Tiocfaidh ar la!
But I would have a priest hole in my house today if it came to that. It may be in the near future that we face persecution again; and this time, when it comes, they won't care if you're Protestant or Catholic.
You’ll have to dig a little deeper. He’s referring to an event also known as the “Irish Potato Famine”.
Yeah, I actually knew that’s what it was.
But Google returns the band info in all of it’s top hits. That’s what I was referring to. I should have used the sarcasm tag.
I am thankful I was born in America.
I was raised in a strong Catholic family.
I got saved by grace through faith as an adult. I'm no longer RCC.
America is home to a very strong Catholicism AND a strong Protestantism.
We should all be thankful for that.
I had never heard of the band before. I wonder if they’re any good.
And there may still come a day in America when we have to hang together, lest we hang separately.
We have come perilously close.
Thanks for the ping. I had heard of priest holes, though not this one.
Something tells me it’s coming.
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