Roman Catholic Church

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical...

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...

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

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.

He came from an Irish Catholic family, though he spent much of his adulthood in England. Despite his Catholic upbringing, he lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist.

MS was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius (or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society .

Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it. They were cosmopolitan in culture.

She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

EF 's father, born an orthodox Jew, was non-practising; he did not have his children baptised, though their mother taught them to say Christian prayers. Eleanor's upbringing was Bohemian and unconventional: she did not attend...

During this London visit she is said to have converted others to Catholicism and to have had an ecstatic vision of her own. She experienced another vision two years later, and another at St Omer...

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...