I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far I am from repenting for having so done, that I wish, with all my soul, that where I have entertained one, I could have entertained a thousand.
Saint Anne Line
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Anne Line
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It is hard to imagine being Catholic in England at that time. I would have left the country.
PENGUINS FAN,
I have read in “Secular Saints” by Joan Carroll Cruz that some that tried were actually dragged from the boats and executed.
I always wondered how the English recrusant families managed to survive. Probably being high born and wealthy landowners helped. Catholics were persecuted from 1534 – 1778. Included in the so called Penal Times were non-conforming Protestants. Priests were not legally allowed to say Mass until 1791.
In Southern Maryland, founded by Catholics, many of the plantation houses had priest holes. In Colonial times Catholics who moved to Virginia were visited by priests ferried across the Potomac under cover of darkness.