Roman Catholic Church

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism —a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life...

EMC was a devoted and exemplary Catholic , from a presumably white, landowning-professional Irish family.

Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.

If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...

After converting to Roman Catholicism the previous year, MH was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol).

MBL was born into the Roman CatholicChurch (to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of...

Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. She became a central and well-known...

TD was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church . Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class.

With the support of her older lover, Ladye , RH converted to Catholicism .

MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .

FTJ was brought up as a Catholic . Her paternal ancestors were writers, poets, theologians, and historians, while her maternal ancestors were colliery owners. By the time of her birth, her family had lost its...

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.

Rose, who was pregnant and soon to give birth when her husband fled into exile, consulted Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley as to whether it would be betraying her faith to have the child...