Roman Catholic Church

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents.

Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. Her childhood home...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

MR was born into the increasingly confident and accomplished English, professional, urban class. As she grew up she participated to the full in her father's strongly held conviction that the true faith was the old...

She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic .

AA was a white Englishwoman from the gentry class. Though her grandparents were Roman Catholics , it seems that her father and others in her family favoured the Reformed or Protestant religion.

Born to a mother of French aristocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-class English family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court...

She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.

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...