Roman Catholic Church

As well as German nationality, MC claimed a background that was Roman Catholic and upper-class, indeed noble. When in print she implicitly admitted that her claims to nobility were false, she fell back on saying...

JD sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism (probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean.

HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.

All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of...

MMG is a Roman Catholic , and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when...

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.

Near the time of her marriage, CC converted to Catholicism , her husband's faith. From this point onwards she remained a devout Catholic.

When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member of the Church of England.

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

By December 1860 BLSB was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism (to which Bessie Rayner Parkes later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot , who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of...

Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.

The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...

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...