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Silver-gilt heart pendant(© Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales)
A personal symbol of Catholic faith dating to the mid-sixteenth century has been found in Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, in western Wales. The silver-gilt pendant depicts a heart with a bleeding wound representing one of Christ’s wounds. The artifact dates to a time during the Tudor period when adherents of the Church of England clashed mightily with Roman Catholics, who were infuriated by King Henry VIII’s dissolution o
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