Name: Syon Abbey 1415-2015. England's Last Medieval Monastery
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Author: Jones, Edward A.
ISBN: 9781781820360

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Syon Abbey 1415-2015. England's Last Medieval Monastery

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Physical Book

Author

Edward A. Jones

Publisher

Gracewing

Language

English

Pages

164

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781781820360

Synopsis "Syon Abbey 1415-2015. England's Last Medieval Monastery"

'The 25th day of November the house of Syon was suppressed into the King's hands, and the ladies and brethren put out, which was the [most] virtuous house of religion that was in England.' So wrote the chronicler Charles Wriothesley in 1539. But the story of Syon Abbey did not end with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Founded by Henry V in 1415, England's only house of the Bridgettine order had been one of the richest monasteries of medieval England. Now the community went underground; they returned briefly under Queen Mary, only to leave again with the accession of Elizabeth. They were to spend more than half a century 'wandering'-through the Netherlands and France, an exodus that brought them, in 1594, to Lisbon in Portugal. Here they remained until 1861, when circumstances at last allowed a return home to England. They settled in Devon, where the remaining sisters now live in retirement. The history of Syon Abbey is an inspiring story of faith and fortitude, of an enclosed, contemplative community that found itself living through persecution and martyrdom, wars and revolutions, fire and earthquake, over six centuries of unbroken tradition and unyielding faith. This book celebrates the sexcentenary of that community in 2015.

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