Through the great men and women of the English Church we can see
the continuous inspiration of the Catholic Faith in England as an
unbroken tradition shaping life and work, history and culture, for
more than fourteen centuries. In this book a group of distinguished
authors with varying interests, champion the achievements of
twenty-three seminal figures in the history of the English Church -
from the seventh century to the present time - who through their
Catholic witness have made a contribution to the spiritual,
intellectual, ethical and physical welfare of the nation which can
be fairly described as 'heroic'. Heroism takes many different
forms. Self-evidently heroic are the martyrs of the penal years who
sacrificed their lives for the sake of the Faith, others earn their
place in this book because their achievements in many different
fields of endeavour are truly heroic - as queens, wives and
mothers, in education, nursing and social teaching, in journalism
and literature, and in challenging the nation's conscience and our
national consciousness. The continuity of the Catholic witness in
England is often overlooked because of the dislocation caused by
the English Reformation, the three subsequent centuries of
suppression of the Church, and the rewriting of history to create a
new national myth. However, in these lives we can see the impact of
Catholicism across the centuries and find inspiration for our own
times. Joanna Bogle, Leonie Caldecott, Simon Caldwell, Judith
Champ, Mgr Antony Conlon, Mark Elvins OFMCap., Patti Fordyce,
Andrea Fraile, Dominic Savio Hamer CP, Etheldreda Hession OSB,
Emily Keyte, Mac McLernon, Dora Nash, Fiorella Nash, Josephine
Robinson, Penny Roker RSM, Tracey Rowland, Gemma Simmonds CJ,
Pauline J. Shaw MFIC, John Skinner and Lucy Underwood share with us
their English Catholic Heroines.
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