Changes to the Church's PRACTICE

Question 1

1536 Royal Injunctions

Answer 1

• celebration of locally important saints e.g. St Wilfrid in Yorkshire was discouraged
• discouragement of pilgrimage
• restriction on the number of holy days to be observed

Question 2

1538 Royal Injunctions

Answer 2

• Veneration (honouring) of relics and images were condemned as “works devised by men’s fantasies”
• Clergy who had upheld the virtues of pilgrimages/relics were required to publicly recant