Today is the 429th anniversary of the death in Rome of Cardinal William Allen, the founder of the English Missionary college at Douai, and a key figure in the survival of Catholicism in England after the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559. A student, and then a Fellow, of Oriel he was to spend most of his life, and all his priestly ministry, in exile.
Cardinal William Allen
Image: great nephew of cardinal william allen. blogspot.com
Stephanie A. Mann had a post about him on her Supremacy and Survival blog the other day which can be read at Preview: Another Confessor: William Cardinal Allen, RIP
Previously, in 2013, she had one about him and his career which can be seen at Cardinal William Allen, Vatican Librarian
The New Advent Catholic Dictionary account of him - which assigns him a date of birth a decade earlier than it actually was - can be accessed at CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Allen
I have written about him in Cardinal William Allen
Although there are early twentieth century biographies of him by Martin Hailes and Dom. Bede Camm he does not appear to have attracted a contemporary biographer. This seems a gap that needs filling by someone with insight into the source material and an understanding of current thought about the position of Catholics in Elizabethan England.
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