Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary Butts
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...
Cultural formation Monica Dickens
MD was born into a wealthy bourgeois family descended from Charles Dickens. Her father (who was half-English, half French-German) had to face family disapproval when he chose his bride, not because her father was German...
Cultural formation Thomas Moore
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.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Dora Sigerson
DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...
Cultural formation Germaine Greer
Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...
Cultural formation Georgiana Chatterton
GC , resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism . This was ten years after her second husband 's conversion, and only six months before her death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Carol Ann Duffy
Brought up a Catholic , CAD early became an agnostic. She has said that she retain[s] some of the motifs of all that and none of the feelings; faith, guilt, whatever. I do envy people...
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
184
Cultural formation Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism , turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press, 1970.
1
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...
Cultural formation Jennifer Johnston
She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.
qtd. in
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
52
On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...
Cultural formation Hilary Mantel
At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane...
Cultural formation Annie Besant
AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...
Cultural formation Flannery O'Connor
FOC was an American, Catholic of Irish descent, imbued with, though not wholly enamoured of, the traditions of the old South.
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
15-17
She is on record as saying: I sure am sick of the Civil...
Cultural formation Annie Tinsley
AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
4
She...

Timeline

8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...

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8 December 1635

Queen Henrietta Maria 's personal Roman Catholic chapel, designed by Inigo Jones , opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
31, 28-9

9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...

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9 November 1640

In a season during which John Pym and the Long Parliament created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6

By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...

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By 1643

Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
Disse, Dorothy. “Arcangela Tarabotti”. Other Women’s Voices.

30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...

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30 March 1643

An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria 's Roman Catholic chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
244-6

Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...

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Before October 1646

Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

11 September 1649: Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell's...

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11 September 1649

Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell 's army after they captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland from royalist Sir Arthur Aston.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314, 326
Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
127
Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
38

6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...

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6 June 1654

Queen Christina abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
Marks, Tracy. Queen Christina of Sweden. 13 Feb. 2003, http://www.windweaver.com/christina/christina.htm.

1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...

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1670

Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...

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16 March 1670

The borough council of Aberdeen, finding that its suppression of Catholic and Quaker meetings on 15 February was being flouted, moved to arrest all male Quakers at the next meeting.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
92

15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...

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15 March 1672

Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist s or recusants in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.

March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...

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March 1673

Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters and Roman Catholics .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326

1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...

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1676

A tally taken by Church of England clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics and Dissenters in England and Wales.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
78-9, 81, 84, 87

Early 1678: Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders...

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Early 1678

Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders at secret conventicles reached a new level with the despatch of Highland troops (mostly Roman Catholics ) to enforce the law in Ayrshire.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.

1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...

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1682

Bunyan published an allegory of salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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