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Saint
Anne Boleyn—A Queen in Heaven!!
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"And
I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for
the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived
and reigned with Christ a thousand years"
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Saint
Anne risked her life to make King Henry VIII familiar with the Bible.
With a knowledge of the Scriptures, King Henry would have terminated
the Spanish alliance and followed up on the New World Discovery of
John Cabot!!
Saint
Anne Boleyn is the connection between St.
Patrick and the Reformation in England. |
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English
and Irish Royalty unite to produce the Blessed Reformation!! |
Saint
Anne Boleyn's grandfather was Hibernian (Irish) and because of the
Anglo-Norman Roman Catholic invasion of 1172; the 2 kingdoms were
united.
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Saint
Anne Boleyn (1501-1536).
Queen
from 1533-1536.
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"Anne's
prospects of marriage came under discussion while she was still
in France. In 1515, her great-grandfather, James Butler, Earl
of Ormonde, died without any male heir of his body to succeed
him. The earldom was claimed both by his cousin, Sir Piers Butler,
and by Sir Thomas Boleyn, his grandson. It was a contest that
would drag on for fourteen years before a solution was reached,
although in 1520 Sir Thomas saw a way of resolving the dispute.
He proposed a marriage between his daughter Anne and James Butler,
the son of Sir Piers. James was described by Cardinal Wolsey
as 'right active, discreet and wise', and Thomas was agreeable
to the earldom devolving upon him if he married Anne. Boleyn's
brother-in-law, the Earl of Surrey, agreed to lay the proposal
before the King, whose consent was necessary in such matters.
Anne, of course, was not consulted, and no one thought to question
whether she would be happy to exchange the sophistication of
the French court for a primitive (Kilkenny) castle in Ireland"
(Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, p.154). |
Anne
Boleyn was the only Queen of England to be unjustly condemned
and beheaded.
The Butlers and
the Kilkennys
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Kilkenny
Caste in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, was the home of the Butler
family for centuries. |
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Mother
Ireland can proudly claim this illustrious Queen as one of her
own children.....Though a humble maiden, she changed the course
of world history and liberated all of Europe from the deadly
grasp of the Papacy.
It was a
love affair and not a war that finally broke
the chains of slavery and set the world on the course toward
the modern age.
"Not
by might, not by power, by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts"
(Zech. 4:6).
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The Anglo-Normans
invaded Hibernia in 1172
Pope
Hadrian gave Hibernia to the Anglo-Normans. Here is an extract
from that Bull:
"Bishop
Adrian, servant of the servants of God, sends to his dearest son in
Christ, the illustrious king of the English, greeting and apostolic
benediction. Laudably and profitably enough thy magnificence thinks
of extending thy glorious name on earth, and of heaping up rewards
of eternal felicity in Heaven, inasmuch as, like a good catholic prince,
thou dost endeavour to enlarge the
bounds of the church, to declare the truth of the Christian faith
to ignorant and barbarous nations, and to extirpate the plants of
evil from the field of the Lord. And, in order the better to
perform this, thou dost ask the advice and favour of the apostolic
see. In which work, the more lofty the counsel and the better the
guidance by which thou dost proceed, so much more do we trust that,
by God's help, thou wilt progress favourably in the same; for the
reason that those things which have taken their rise from ardour of
faith and love of religion are accustomed always to come to a good
end and termination." (Bull
Laudabiliter).
However,
once the Anglo-Normans began to breathe the FREE air of Hibernia they
began to lose the feudal medieval slave mentality and they
became more Irish than the Irish themselves. A lot of intermarriage
took place between the native Irish and the invaders. The Butlers
and the Kilkennys were one such family.
In
1366, statues were enacted called the Statues of Kilkenny
to try and prevent Norman and later settlers from becoming more
Irish than the Irish themselves.
Henry
VIII had his father poisoned!!
With
a lot of help from the Franciscan monks, Henry VIII had his father
poisoned.
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King
Henry VIII (1491-1547).
King from 1508-1547 |
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Henry
became King as a beardless boy of 18. His father, Henry Tudor,
was poisoned to make way for the son to usurp the throne.
He left
the running of the country to 2 men: Cardinal Wolsey and Sir
Thomas More.
His father
did not want him to marry Catherine of Aragon but with his father
conveniently dead there was nobody to restrain the folly of
the son.
He had a
perfect plan except for ONE thing: GOD controls the issues of
life and death and the Lord prevented him from having a male
heir. |
Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn had no desire to marry King Henry. She was engaged to
another man, Henry Percy, the heir to the earldom of Northumberland.
The King asked his boss, Cardinal Wolsey, to break the engagement
because he had fallen in love with Anne:
"Wolsey
wasted no time in laying the matter before the King, without whose
permission no aristocratic marriage could be contracted and who
was angry at not being consulted. According to Cavendish, who relates
the whole episode as one with inside knowledge of it, the thought
of Anne Boleyn betrothed to another man disturbed him, so much so
that he reluctantly confessed to the Cardinal the 'secret affection'
he had been nurturing for her, and ordered Wolsey to break the engagement.
This Wolsey agreed was the best course, and when he arrived back
at York Place, he summoned Percy and proceeded to lecture him sternly
over his folly in involving himself with 'that foolish girl yonder
in the court, Anne Boleyn'. In front of Cavendish and other onlookers,
the Cardinal accused the young man of having offended his father
and his sovereign; Anne was 'one such as neither of them will be
agreeable with the matter', and anyway, 'His
Highness intended to have preferred Anne Boleyn unto another person,
although she knoweth it not'. Henry, of course, had done
no such thing: he was reserving Anne for himself" (Weir, The
Six Wives of Henry VIII, p. 157).
Anne Boleyn was another victim of the ruthless King Henry; but God
was going to use the situation to bring about the end of Roman hegemony
in Britain. Here is how it happened:
The
Sack of Rome in 1527 in order to prevent the divorce!!
The brutal Spanish
Inquisition wanted to keep England occupied in order to conquer
the entire New World. Their agent in England was Catherine of Aragon,
daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic.
The Lord shut
up Catherine's womb and prevented her from having male children.
King Henry VIII grew tired of her and applied to the Pope for a
divorce. Pope Clement was ready to grant Henry VIII a divorce from
Catherine of Aragon.
King Henry
was ready to pay up to half his kingdom in gold for the divorce.
The gold reached Rome in the spring of 1527.
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On May 5, 1527,
the Spanish invaded and sacked the city of Rome destroying priceless
treasures. The Pope was made a prisoner and a vassal of the Emperor
Charles V. |
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The
Spanish Inquisition was alarmed when King Henry asked the Pope
for permission to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne
Boleyn.
This
meant that an English queen who favored the Reformation would
encourage King Henry to follow up on the Discovery of the New
World by John Cabot.
The Spanish
attacked the city of Rome and committed unspeakable tortures
on the inhabitants. They stole the gold that Henry sent for
the divorce and made the Pope a prisoner.
With no
divorce and no gold, King Henry turned in disgust from the church
of Rome and made himself Pope in his kingdom.
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The
executioners of Anne Boleyn
There
were many, many people involved in the execution of Anne Boleyn. Here
are just 3 of them:
Cardinal
Wolsey (1475-1530).
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Sir Thomas
More (1478-1535).
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Queen
Jane Seymour (1509-1537).
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Jane
Seymour was used by the Catholics in order to cause the downfall and
death of Anne Boleyn. Jane Seymour was introduced at Court in order
to supplant Queen Anne:
"The
imperialists were aware of this too, and thus Jane Seymour found herself
courted, not only by Henry VIII, but also by Anne's enemies and Chapuys's
faction. The ambassador advised her
to drop heavy hints about Anne's heretical leanings in Henry's ear,
and to say that the people of England would never accept her as their
true Queen. She must say these things in the presence of her supporters,
who would all then swear, on their allegiance to the King, that she
spoke the truth. Jane certainly acted upon this advice, and it had
the desired effect upon the King, who was now receptive to criticism
of his wife. Jane also followed her own instincts, and the
advice of her friends, by not admitting Henry to her bed. Instead,
she dropped heavy hints about marriage, which fell on fertile ground,
and before long Henry began to behave towards her with great circumspection,
leading others to believe that he was already considering her as a
future wife. From this time on, he took care to avoid any hint of
scandal attaching itself to her name; her family and adherents were
quick to notice this new deference on the part of the King, and Sir
Francis Bryan told Jane's parents that they would shortly see their
daughter 'well bestowed' in marriage"(Weir, The Six Wives
of Henry VIII, p. 306).
Anne Boleyn had 3 miscarriages all caused by the Cantrella of Borgia.
All 3 of the plotters died soon afterwards. Wolsey died on his way
to the Tower and Sir Thomas More was beheaded in 1535. Jane Seymour
died in childbirth in 1537. Her son Edward died from poison in 1553,
and Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Boleyn, went on to become England's
greatest queen.
Vital
Links
Hever
Castle —childhood home of Anne Boleyn
Kilkenny
Caste
—Ancestral home of the Butlers and Kilkennys
Oration
to Anne Boleyn from John Foxe, martyrologist
References
Weir,
Alison. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Grove Press, New York,
1991.
Wylie,
J. A. LL.D. History of Protestantism, in 2 massive
volumes, Mourne Missionary Trust, Kilkeel, Co. Down, Ireland.
Copyright
© 2007 by Niall Kilkenny
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