![]() But the biggest surprise is that the Catholic Church has been the main character in the two thousand years of stories that have come from this storied island." ― Dale Ahlquist, President, Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Like any account of a life, Faith of Our Fathers is full of surprises. It is a story which is not only worth telling but worth celebrating. ![]() This whole exciting, faith-filled story is told within this single-volume history of "true England", the England which remained true to the Faith through thick and thin, in times both merry and perilous. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and J. Much of the greatest literature of the past century has been written by literary converts, such as G. John Henry Newman, which would continue into the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, against all the odds, there was a great Catholic revival, heralded by the conversion of St. The martyrdoms continued for 150 years, followed by a further 150 years of legal and political persecution. This made England once again a land of saints, though it was now a land of martyrs, Catholic priests and laity being put to death for practicing the Faith. This Catholic heart was ripped from the people of England, against their will and in spite of their heroic resistance, by the reign of the tyrannical Tudors. Edward the Confessor, Saxon England was ablaze with the light of Christ. ![]() Bede's account of the history of the early Church to the reign of the holy king, St. ![]() England was evangelized in these early centuries to such an extent that, by the time the Romans withdrew in the fifth century, the Celtic population was largely Catholic.Īnglo-Saxon England has rightly been considered a land of saints. The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century AD. ![]()
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