Roman Catholic Church

During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville , a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through...

She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism at a very...

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...

EN became a Roman Catholic a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not...

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...

She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom .

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...

Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.

Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...

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...

She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical...

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.