Stratford Martyrs Memorial
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Memorial in London
51°32′30″N 0°00′09″E / 51.541561°N 0.002618°E / 51.541561; 0.002618
The Stratford Martyrs Memorial is a memorial that commemorates the
Marian persecutions
.
In 1879, a large monument was erected in
auricular confession, transubstantiation, purgatory and images".[1] The memorial is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.[2]
The monument was paid for by public subscription; the chairman of the appeal committee was Rev. William Jay Bolton, the Vicar of Stratford. It was inaugurated in a ceremony on 2 August 1879, presided over by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who made a strongly anti-Catholic speech. The opinion of The Graphic, a national weekly newspaper, was that "Language of this sort is better calculated to wound the feelings of many good people than to break down barriers that already too effectually divide the different denominations."[3]
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External links
- Media related to Stratford Martyrs Memorial at Wikimedia Commons