Greetings all,
I´m trying to find out, more so for Lutheran countries than Anglican ones (but I´m happy with anything!) what happened to altars at the Reformation? Did they continue in use? Were they destroyed and new ones built (I expect replaced by communion tables in Calvinist countries?)
Were the relics removed and the continued to be used? And in that connection, we know that altars were
supposed to contain a relic (or a piece of the consecrated host) but is there any evidence as to the extent that this rule was or was not followed?
All the best,
Meg