Roman Catholic Church

Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

She was baptised a Roman Catholic , though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession...

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.

Rose, who was pregnant and soon to give birth when her husband fled into exile, consulted Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley as to whether it would be betraying her faith to have the child...

She was, like the whole population of England in her day, a Roman Catholic ; she was suspected, but acquitted, of the heresy of Lollardy . After a prolific married life, she became a celibate.

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...

JOF was born to intense paternal concern about Irish nationality, to indignation at the power of the Roman Catholic Church (in which, nevertheless, she was confirmed at ten years old), and a conviction that national...

Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

It seems AA was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June. She was questioned by Edmund Bonner , Bishop of London, but later acquitted for...

Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism . He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at...

In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...