Roman Catholic Church

Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...

Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

Julian of Norwich was a Roman Catholic (like everyone in England at the time). It is not known when she became an anchoress, or what her life had been before that. Her family may have...

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...

She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

COCE was born into the Irish, Roman Catholic , professional or gentry class, with descent from ancient royalty. Her family had great pride of race: when she was barely in her teens, genealogist John O'Hart

CG was an Irishwoman. She apparently disliked talking of her early life. All she would tell Laetitia Pilkington was that her parents were poor illiterate Country People. Illiterate meant merely uneducated. Though this sounds...

This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she...

After the war, CC 's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had...