Roman Catholic Church

Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...

CC fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience...

Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that...

Born into the English gentry at a period of harsh persecution, she was a cradle Catholic (and a fervent one) whose ideas for new departures within the Church often led her into conflict with its...

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic , she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland).

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

Alice Thompson (later AM ) converted to Catholicism at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness.

AS 's Catholic childhood was an apparent anomaly in twentieth-century Inverness, her family being one of only four Catholic families in a long street. Her particular Catholicism was, as she calls it, a...

Late in life RG became a Roman Catholic , as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts , formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a...

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville , a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through...