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...

She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.

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...

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .

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

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...

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.

SW grew up as a Roman Catholic in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents...

MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...

CH (now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism .

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...

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.

MCC was born into a professional, English family of European extraction (her father was half Italian and her mother half German) and Roman Catholic religion. Mary writes of her early, Catholic church attendance in terms...