Roman Catholic Church

HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English (though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....

ML was a Roman Catholic . In Massachusetts religious observance was a relaxed affair. An altar was set up for Mass every Saturday night in the local movie house after the films were over, and...

She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...

DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...

GC , resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism . This was ten years after her second husband 's conversion, and only six months before her death.

When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member of the Church of England.

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic...

Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. In childhood SB acquired briefly an intense Roman Catholic

The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...

Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or...

Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .