Roman Catholic Church

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

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...

She was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Gravesend cemetery. Her husband outlived her by fourteen years.

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.

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.

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 .

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

At this point Betty entered St Paul's School for Girls and then (having fallen ill) had a convalescent year at a Catholic boarding school cum sanatorium at Berck-Plage near Boulogne.

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...