Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
| Birth | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
was born at the fortified stronghold of Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire, the youngest but one of a large and distinguished Roman Catholic
family. Henrietta Tayler
gives the year of her birth as 1668... |
| Characters | Marie Belloc Lowndes | With characters from a multiplicity of countries, the novel is set in London and an English country house. The Russian Paul Feyghine wastes the best years of his life for love of an unworthy Spanish... |
| Characters | Roma White | This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good... |
| Characters | Jennifer Johnston | |
| Characters | Willa Cather | Her heroine, Myra Driscoll, is a Roman Catholic
who sets her religion aside and elopes to marry a Protestant, Oswald Henshawe, bringing down on herself family disapproval and disinheritance. Her brave insistence on marrying for... |
| Characters | Antonia Fraser | The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic
spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima... |
| Characters | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
| Characters | John Oliver Hobbes | Time passes, and Sophy is happily married and then widowed, while Jim becomes a Nonconformist minister. The Firmalden siblings become intimate with an aristocratic Roman Catholic
couple, Lord Basil and Lady Tessa Marlesford. Struggle over... |
| Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
| Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A Roman Catholic
widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved... |
| Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a... |
| Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | Brought up a Catholic
, KOBlost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds
calls her a... |
| Cultural formation | Ford Madox Ford | Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF
converted to Roman Catholicism
at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems... |
| Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius
(or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society
. |
Timeline
1400-50
During this half-century, one third of all new saints canonised by the Catholic Church
were women.
1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
12 July 1539
With Henry VIII
's personal support, an Act came into force establishing Six Articles of Religion for the Church in England (still at this date the Catholic Church
) to subscribe to.
21 July 1542
Pope Paul III
revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism
by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther
and John Calvin
.
1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
outlined the shape of Roman Catholic
beliefs for centuries to come.
15 August 1549
St Francis Xavier
landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
July 1550
A warrant was issued for money setting up Humphrey Powell
as royal printer in Dublin. Next year he issued an edition of The Book of Common Prayer which was the first book published in Ireland.
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
Spring1554
Each adult in England, of either sex, was required by their bishop to make a formal statement of Catholic
faith before they were eligible to make their Easter Communion.
June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
1559
The Roman Catholic Church
set up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or list of prohibited books, to protect its flock from dangerous and heretical ideas.
20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
1627
An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic
faith away from the Protestant).