Roman Catholic Church

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...

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...

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

While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

In Devon she developed the religious tolerance that distinguishes her writing and helped her to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Christian literary communities. Here she came into contact with provincial English Protestantism, which...

Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...

GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.

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...

MB was a Roman Catholic and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family.

AMC was presumably white and presumably (like her sister) Catholic ; she hailed from a well-connected land-owning and professional family in Ireland.

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party...

Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian