Roman Catholic Church

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 .

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...

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...

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...

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

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...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism , turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion.

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...

At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane...

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

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.

Although in her student days she practised witchy activities like casting spells, she was, says Marina Warner (the recipient of an unsuccessful spell to cure a painful unrequited love), a quietly practising Catholic most of...