Roman Catholic Church

Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it. They were cosmopolitan in culture.

Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness. She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...

She came from an upper-class English family: her great-grandfather was a baronet. She was presumably a Roman Catholic , since she married two Catholic husbands.

FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...

In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. He...

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

MD was born into a wealthy bourgeois family descended from Charles Dickens. Her father (who was half-English, half French-German) had to face family disapproval when he chose his bride, not because her father was German...

Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. As...

DDM had faith in a kind of spiritual life which included the conviction that there was life after death, but did not subscribe to any formal religion, even though she kept a Catholic missal by...

GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.

Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic , he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum.

CC fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience...

Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that...