Syon Abbey 1415-2015

Kirjan Syon Abbey 1415-2015 (2017) on kirjoittanut Edward Jones. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Gracewing. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 164 sivua ja se on sidottu.

'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.