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Covenanters [a] were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. It originated in disputes with James VI and his son Charles I over church organisation and doctrine , but expanded into political conflict over the limits ...
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (or simply The Covenant) is a 2023 American action drama film co-written, produced and directed by Guy Ritchie. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim. Its plot follows John Kinley, a U.S. Army Green Beret Master Sergeant, and Ahmed, his Afghan interpreter, fighting the Taliban.
In America is a 2002 drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiographical screenplay by Jim Sheridan and his daughters, Naomi and Kirsten , focuses on an immigrant Irish family's struggle to start a new life in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter.
This is a list of films produced by the American film industry from the earliest films of the 1890s to the present. 1890s. List of American films of the 1890s;
He was born in Upper Creevagh, County Donegal, Ireland to David Steel and Sarah Gailey.His father was a fourth-generation descendant of Capt. John Steel of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, a local leader in the Covenanter uprising of 1679.
Brown refused to swear the oath which was designed to be repugnant to Covenanters and thereby a "sieve, the mesh of which would winnow the loyal from the disloyal". [ 10 ] At the time, failure to take the Oath was a capital offence and thus defying the King was high treason; this was a fact of which Brown was well aware.
Articles related to the Covenanters, members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, informally referred to as the Kirk, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs.
The Covenanters' Preaching, painting by George Harvey A conventicle originally meant "an assembly" and was frequently used by ancient writers to mean "a church." At a semantic level, conventicle is a Latinized synonym of the Greek word for church , and references Jesus' promise in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are met together in my name."