Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Mary Wesley
MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
172
Cultural formation Christopher St John
At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
389
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
250
Cultural formation May Laffan
She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic , she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland).
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
13
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
She said she joined the Catholic Church because of its administration of morals. Other Christian churches or sects . . . have the legislation of Christian morality but they do not enforce the law. The...
Cultural formation Marina Warner
Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl.
qtd. in
Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67.
261
From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...
Cultural formation Ali Smith
AS 's Catholic childhood was an apparent anomaly
“Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive, 19 Nov. 2011.
in twentieth-century Inverness, her family being one of only four Catholic families in a long street.
Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29.
189
Her particular Catholicism was, as she calls it, a...
Cultural formation Rumer Godden
Late in life RG became a Roman Catholic , as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts , formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
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...
Cultural formation Maria Theresa Longworth
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...
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...
Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961.
82
and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961.
191
Cultural formation Lucas Malet
LM was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England , but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted...
Cultural formation Catharine Burton
Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics . This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights...
Cultural formation Mary Angela Dickens
She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...

Timeline

8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...

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8 December 1635

Queen Henrietta Maria 's personal Roman Catholic chapel, designed by Inigo Jones , opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
31, 28-9

9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...

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9 November 1640

In a season during which John Pym and the Long Parliament created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6

By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...

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By 1643

Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
Disse, Dorothy. “Arcangela Tarabotti”. Other Women’s Voices.

30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...

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30 March 1643

An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria 's Roman Catholic chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
244-6

Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...

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Before October 1646

Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

11 September 1649: Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell's...

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11 September 1649

Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell 's army after they captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland from royalist Sir Arthur Aston.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314, 326
Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
127
Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
38

6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...

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6 June 1654

Queen Christina abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
Marks, Tracy. Queen Christina of Sweden. 13 Feb. 2003, http://www.windweaver.com/christina/christina.htm.

1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...

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1670

Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...

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16 March 1670

The borough council of Aberdeen, finding that its suppression of Catholic and Quaker meetings on 15 February was being flouted, moved to arrest all male Quakers at the next meeting.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
92

15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...

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15 March 1672

Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist s or recusants in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.

March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...

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March 1673

Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters and Roman Catholics .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326

1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...

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1676

A tally taken by Church of England clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics and Dissenters in England and Wales.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
78-9, 81, 84, 87

Early 1678: Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders...

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Early 1678

Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders at secret conventicles reached a new level with the despatch of Highland troops (mostly Roman Catholics ) to enforce the law in Ayrshire.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.

1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...

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1682

Bunyan published an allegory of salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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