Statute, Bloody
STATUTE BLOODY
Or the law of the six articles; a law enacted in the reign of Henry VIII. which denounced death against all those who should deny the doctrine of transubstantiation; or maintain the necessity of receiving the sacrament in both kinds, or affirm that it was lawful for priests to marry, that vows of celibacy might be broken, that private masses were of no avail, and that auricular confession to a priest was not necessary to salvation.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Statute, Bloody
an act passed during that period of reaction against the Reformation in the mind of Henry VIII which lasted from 1538 to 1584. SEE ARTICLES, SIX.