Roman Catholic Church

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...

Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...

FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic

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

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 .

FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.

Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...

CG was an Irishwoman. She apparently disliked talking of her early life. All she would tell Laetitia Pilkington was that her parents were poor illiterate Country People. Illiterate meant merely uneducated. Though this sounds...

MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.

Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ converted to Roman Catholicism . She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson (a homosexual whose...

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

She was born into the English gentry and at a time of religious turmoil and change she probably held to the old religion of Catholicism , not openly but at least in sympathy, in view...

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .