“…when our Lord says in the gospel story that He brings fire, so that allegiance to Him will divide families, we see the immense price that is paid by those who attach themselves to Him…”
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Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594)
“We take seminaries for granted today, but they were a new idea at the time, and one of the pioneers of these houses of formation was the man behind the organisation of much of what we know as the English Mission…”
The English College, Lisbon (1622-1972)
“Established at a time of penal persecution in England, it found itself able as a British establishment to help negotiate the marriage of Catherine of Braganza and Charles II…”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 