I have another article in the latest edition of Mass of Ages, the quarterly magazine published by the Latin Mass Society. It has even made the front cover with a portrait of the subject of the article, Cardinal William Allen.
Cardinal William Allen
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He was the founder of the Douai seminary for missionary priests during the Elizabethan persecution and also of the English College in Rome. His last years were spent as a Cardinal in Rome, but he never forgot his birthplace on the Lancashire coast. He was a key figure in maintaining the Catholic faith during a time of increasing persecution, yet in many ways his actions made the Elizabethan government all the more hostile to Catholicism. That paradox remains at the core of his life.
Doomed to exile by the circumstances of his times he never relinquished his love for the land and faith of his birth.
My interest in him is not just that he was a leading Catholic figure, but we are both members of the same Oxford college of Oriel. His early twentieth century statue looks out from the High Street facade of the Rhodes Building.
The article and magazine can be accessed at https://share.google/9092pe33JYbBoFrnQ
3 comments:
John I read your article yesterday, it was very good!
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
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