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Through the 16th and 17th centuries,
整个十六世纪与十七世纪
Protestants and Catholics fought over this land
新教徒与天主教徒一直在争夺这片土地
in a conflict whose visual scars
斗争中留下的可见伤疤
can be found in churches across the country.
在全英格兰的教堂中都能够找到
There's no more powerful evidence of that than Ely Cathedral.
这伤疤的证据在伊利座堂中最为显著
Though later much restored,
尽管后期经过多次整修
Ely remains an exquisite jewel of Gothic architecture.
伊利座堂仍然是哥特式建筑中的一块精美宝石
Its cavernous nave,
它那空旷巨大的教堂中殿
its ornate carvings that still reflect their medieval colours.
它那仍旧显现出中世纪色彩的华丽雕刻
And high above, this extraordinary Octagonal Lantern,
而正上方 这一气魄非凡的八角形提灯
almost a gateway to heaven itself.
几乎就是一条指向天堂的通道
But during the great religious schism,
但是在宗教大分裂时期
the splendour of Ely would fall victim
辉煌的伊利座堂就被英格兰
to one of England's most infamous Protestant reformers.
最臭名昭著的新教改革家迫害了
On 9 January 1644, Oliver Cromwell,
1644年1月9日 当时的伊利地方长官
who was then Governor of Ely, marched into this cathedral
奥利弗.克伦威尔长驱直入进了这座教堂
in what is one of the most mythologised
这是英国宗教内战中
and probably highly embellished incidents
发生的一件最具神秘色彩
in the English Religious Civil Wars.
且可能最被粉饰的事件
It's hard to imagine it now
如今已很难想象当时的情景了
because it all feels so tranquil here,
因为这里的一切都感觉是如此平静
but the story goes that Cromwell went up to the priest
但据说当时克伦威尔走到那位
who was conducting evening service,
正在主持晚礼拜的牧师面前
told him to put away his version of the prayer book,
命令他把自己的那版祈祷书收起来
to stop the choir singing
命令唱诗班停止歌唱
- a kind of "Turn off the music" moment -
这是一种"强迫终止音乐"的时刻
and then he either actively encouraged
然后他要么是大肆煽动
or at least did nothing to stop his troops turning on the fabric,
要么至少是任凭他的部队对教堂内的建筑
and the images and the glass in the place.
画像以及玻璃器皿进行破坏
As they went through the vestry and the cloisters,
在穿过法衣室和回廊的时候
what they did was basically smash the place up.
他们所做的基本上就是在摧毁这座建筑
Cromwell's attack was just one assault in a long campaign
克伦威尔的进攻只是伊利座堂遭受的
against the images at Ely.
长期袭击运动中的一次
For these reformers, the worship of holy images
对这些改革家来说 对圣像的崇拜
was a Catholic superstition,
是一种天主教迷信
a distraction from the pure word of God.
是对纯粹的上帝之言的偏离
The images at Ely had to go.
伊利座堂中的圣像必须消失
And here in the Lady Chapel, there remains evidence of
在圣母堂中 还遗留着另一场事件中
widespread destruction on another occasion.
所发生浩劫的证据
