Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich was a Roman Catholic (like everyone in England at the time). It is not known when she became an anchoress, or what her life had been before that. Her family may have...
Cultural formation Constance Countess Markievicz
Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967.
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death Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL died of stomach cancer at her home of her daughter Lady Iddesleigh , Parfetts House at Eversley Cross in Hampshire, having received the last sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church .
Iddesleigh, Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3.
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death Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , died of tuberculosis, in the Catholic religion, and in her daughter's words without any agony quietly as a child, being wholly spent by her disease.
Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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death Annie Tinsley
She was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Gravesend cemetery. Her husband outlived her by fourteen years.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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death Dylan Thomas
DT , Welsh poet, died of pneumonia in St Vincent's, a private hospital in New York run by Roman Catholic nuns. He had been in a deep coma for four or five days.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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death Evelyn Waugh
He had just taken part in a festive family lunch following a local celebration by his friend Father Caraman of the Roman Catholic Mass in Latin, not English: that is, according to the old rite...
Dedications Jane Barker
It appeared though Curll and Rivington , dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham (an Anglican who was said to be a Catholic sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been...
Dedications Mary Angela Dickens
In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism , MAD published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton , a Jesuit priest.
Dickens, Mary Angela, and Father Charles S. J. Galton. Sanctuary. R & T Washbourne, 1916, xii, 137 pp.
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Education Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
COCE went to school at Upton Hall , near Birkenhead in England, a Roman Catholic convent school for girls founded in 1849 by nuns of the then fairly new teaching Order of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus
Education Elizabeth Grymeston
EG must have been well educated; Retha Warnicke suspects she may have been taught by Jesuits. In adulthood she was well read, being familiar with the Vulgate Bible (the Latin translation ascribed to St Jerome...
Education Gillian Allnutt
GA was educated at convent and grammar schools. Although her family were nominally Anglicans, she and her middle sister were enrolled in a Roman Catholic convent school inLondon, which their mother had once...
Education Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle, later SACD , attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College , a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic public school in England. He acquired a passion...
Education Mary Ann Radcliffe
After a strong religious grounding at home, and after the idea of placing her in a French convent was abandoned because of the Seven Years War, MAR received a good education at the Bar Convent
Education Mavis Gallant
By the age of four, MG was already boarding at Pensionnat Saint-Louis de Gonzague, a Jansenist convent in Montreal, on Sherbrooke Street East, the same street on which she lived.
Wachtel, Eleanor. “‘From the Fifteenth District’ with author Mavis Gallant (2008 Encore)”. Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel.
She was the only...

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