The Catholic Church has been a part of English History since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century after Christ.
It is a story not only worth telling but worth celebrating..
This whole exciting, faith-filled story is told by Joseph Pearce within a single-volume History of True England, the England that remained True to the Faith through thick and thin, in times both merrie and perilous.
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Much of the greatest literature of the past century has been written by literary converts to the Church, 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 would continue for 150 years, followed by a further 150 years of legal and political persecution.
This made England once again a land of saints--that is, of martyrs, with Catholic priests and laity being put to death for practicing the Faith.
Then in the sixteenth century, this Catholic heart was ripped from the people of England, against their will and in spite of their spirited and heroic resistance, by the reign of the Tudors.
Even following the Norman Conquest, the Faith continued to flourish and prosper, making its joyful presence felt in what would become known as Merrie England.
Edward, a vision of the Virgin at Walsingham placed the Mother of God on the throne as England\'s queen, the land being considered her dowry.
During the reign of St.
Edward the Confessor, Saxon England was ablaze with the light of Christ.
Bede, with his History of the early Church, to the holy king St.
From St.
Anglo-Saxon England, prior to the Norman Conquest, was a land of saints.
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.
The Catholic Church has been a part of English History since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century after Christ
