The Diamond of England
“The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So the Faith was planted: so it must be restored.” – St. Edmund Campion *** I am the teacher whose lessons you scorn, As I beg you to remember the glories of old, When the Cross was planted on …...
Heroines of the Catholic Resistance: Female Recusancy in England 1585-1610
BY T.J. GUILE During the reign of Elizabeth I, from 1585 onwards, as Catholic practice was removed from the parish church and gradually became more of a dissident, underground faith, some Catholic women applied their skills pragmatically and, together with lay men, became effective agents in the preservation of their faith. It could be...
