The Scottish Covenanters | movie | 1909 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00In a field near the village of Hart Hill in central Scotland, a small group of people

00:14have gathered to carry out an act of worship that dates back more than 300 years. This

00:19simple open-air service, and many others like it in Scotland, commemorates the hundreds

00:24of Scots who were brutally murdered during a 50-year struggle to be allowed to worship

00:30as they believed was right. It was a movement that would, at some stages, unite Scotland

00:36against her king and rulers. At others, it would lead to the division and the bloody

00:41and cruel persecution of thousands of men, women and children. They would hang for their

00:47beliefs and suffer torture and deportation. They would lose everything they owned and

00:52witness the ruination of their wives and families. But throughout, despite being at

00:58the mercy of changing kings and political situations, of the civil war in England and

01:03threats from Europe, the Covenanters fought on, remaining fervent in their love of God

01:09and the belief that no man, king or pope, should have the power over their faith and

01:14the way they worshipped. By the end of the 50-year struggle, the Covenanting movement

01:20would be almost on its knees, but still fighting. It would be the efforts of one or two loyal

01:26Covenanters who would manage to get the Presbyterian religion reintroduced to Scotland, where it

01:31remains the national religion to this day.