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Under Elizabeth, Englishness was discovered,celebrated, shouted from the roof tops,
在伊丽莎白的统治下 英国特色逐渐形成 被她的子民所赞颂 高歌
and it was, above all, a Protestant Englishness.
最重要的是 这种特色是英国新教特色
With hindsight,God must have meant this to happen all along.
如今看来 这肯定是上帝的旨意
Now, Protestantism and patriotism were one and the same,
如今 新教教义和爱国主义合而为一
and the history you've just seen,which at the outset had nothing to do with national identity,
在你刚才看到的历史中 起初与国家意识没有丝毫关系
at the end became obsessed with it.
但最终与之密不可分
And when the Pope offered to bless anyone who would assassinate Elizabeth,that bond only became stronger.
而当教皇许诺 为暗杀伊丽莎白的人赐予祝福时 这种信念的联系却愈加强烈
Now Catholics would be forced to choose between their Church and their Queen.
现在天主教徒们被迫 在教会和女王之间做出选择
English Catholic priests trained in foreign seminaries
在国外神学院修行的英国天主教神父
would be smuggled into the country and end up either dead
偷渡到英国 最终不是被杀
or in hiding with Catholic families who were rich and powerful enough to protect them.
就是藏身于 信奉天主教的达官贵人家中
So if we ask ourselves the question we asked at the beginning of the programme,
若我们回顾 本集开始时的那个问题
Whatever happened to Catholic England?
英格兰的天主教究竟怎么了
The answer is that it ended up down here,
答案就在这里
in a Priest hole, like this one at Sawston Hall outside Cambridge.
在神父洞中 这个位于剑桥市郊外的索斯顿镇
The splendour of Long Melford reduced to a cloak-and-dagger church.
繁华一时的朗梅尔福德的三一教堂 已沦落为藏身之所
For the Catholics of Elizabeth's England the retreat of the priesthood to the country house would be a final disaster.
对于伊丽莎白统治下的天主教徒 神职人员撤到乡村小屋 是终极灾难
What was once the national church would become a faith on the run.
曾经的国立教会 如今却只能亡命天涯
