Comments on: St Nicholas Owen… by Tony Reynolds

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:55:27 +0000

It is quite shocking that these things happened and similar still continue to do so.

By: The Yum List

The Yum List — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:31:56 +0000

Wow, sounds like a fascinating tale. It’s just incredible that these events were actually real and not imagined. Who needs fantasy when humans are capable of the more extraordinary things?

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 16:16:34 +0000

Thanks for the link back

-The books that Tony Reynolds main sources are:
-The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest translated by Philip Caraman
-The Conditions of the Catholics under James I edited and translated by John Morris (this includes the Autobiography and another work by John Gerrard; Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot)
-Henry Garnett 1555-1606 and the Gunpowder Plot by Philip Caraman
-God’s Secret Agents by Alice Hogge (for information on the activities and fates of the missionary priests)
-The Gunpowder Plot – Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser (being more sympathetic to the Catholics than most)
-Secret Hiding Places by Michael Hodgetts (for details of the hiding places)

There is an earlier work on priest holes. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Alan Fea which can be read on line at library.org https://archive.org/details/secretchambershi00feaa

I have previously written a review on the Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2015/05/25/the-autobiography-of-a-hunted-priest-john-gerard/

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:43:28 +0000

Those men are incredibly inspiring and so are the women that risked their lives to conceal them.

The sad thing is that the human race never learns from its past mistakes it justs goes on to repeat them all over again.

By: Hels

Hels — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:24:17 +0000

Thank you for a reference no-one else had mentioned. This was a topic I was very interested in so I created a link to my post called “Terror and Catholic faith in Elizabethan England”. http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/terror-and-catholic-faith-in.html

Hels

By: Amfortas

Amfortas — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 07:58:33 +0000

I look back at those days and sit in awe at the courage of such men. As an Englishman and a Catholic I weep for the people (all people) of that turbulent and violent time when Englishmen let leave of their sense of common purpose and common, traditional spiritual certainty; and all at the behest of a King who could have been the greatest Catholic King in several hundred years, but fell to the corrupt desires whispered into his ear by ‘you know who’.

Owen’s constructions remind us of a time past. His material works have stood the test of time, at a time when the entire country’s traditions and ways of living were being hunted down and destroyed. His spiritual work lives in eternity.

And now our time is seeing worse coming in the near distance.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 22:39:23 +0000

Thanks for letting me know

I had been experimenting with with uploading pics to my blog rather than linking to them from Flickr. For some reason the post link had chosen to revert to an earlier saved version of the post rather than the one I had actually tried to post…

You should be able to see the picture now?

By: London Caller

London Caller — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:13:42 +0000

Weird? Today’s picture is not showing?