The Noble Martyr - Philip Howard, by Dudley Plunkett

The Noble Martyr, A Spiritual Biography of St Philip Howard. Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel (1557-1595), son of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, reached adulthood forty years after the execution of Thomas More and John Fisher when the Elizabethan Reformation was well under way. No less than 819 monastic communities had been dissolved by Henry VIII; the Mass and even the Rosary had been banned; the iconoclasts had ransacked the parish churches; the law had proscribed the Catholic faith; the new religion of the Church of England had repudiated many of the main teachings of the Catholic Church including the doctrine of transubstantiation; a succession of laws held anyone identified as a Catholic priest guilty of treason and condemned to fines, torture and execution; and 183 English Catholics were put to death between 1577 and 1603. The book includes the full text of some of St Philip’s most beautiful writing, including A Lament for Our Lady’s Shrine at Walsingham.

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Author: Dudley Plunkett
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
Published: Oct 2019
Dimensions: 140mm x 217mm.