Pilgrimage of Grace

noun

1. a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government

Example Sentences

In 1536, an uprising in the north known as the Pilgrimage of Grace threatened Henry’s authority with calls for a return to Catholicism and the preservation and restoration of monasteries the crown was in the process of dissolving.

From Slate

It is to be a train of trains that will bear the Hollywood stars on their pilgrimage of grace and homage.

From The Guardian

The dissolution of the monasteries had meanwhile evoked a popular protest in the north, and it was only by skilful and unscrupulous diplomacy that Henry was enabled to suppress so easily the Pilgrimage of Grace.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1536 the last prior was hanged for being concerned in the insurrection called the Pilgrimage of Grace.

From Project Gutenberg

An unsuccessful diplomatist, his chief services in arms were the butchery in the north after the Pilgrimage of Grace and the raid into Scotland which ended with the rout of Solway Moss.

From Project Gutenberg