Tudor Apocalypse

Monastic dissolution, the twilight of the saints, and the occult consequences

Between Easter 1536 and Easter 1540, the spiritual landscape of England and Wales was changed forever. On the orders of Henry VIII, every one of its 660 monasteries and 180 friaries were dissolved, or forcibly closed, their assets taken by the crown and their communities dispersed. And 14,000 monks, nuns and friars, as well as countless monastic servant…