I must be frank with the Goodreads user and it is essentially that I am a collector of Catholic writers, so I will be more fascinated by them. At the moment I must give a very serious news to the User of Goodreads, if it is right to continue to trust my tastes. Ladies and gentlemen, I am ready (if vagrancy does not stop me) to write my second review of the year('Baldur's Gates Shadows of Amn' does not count, because it was not read this year, and it is more a critique of last year than of this 2021). The tale told in this book is one of suspense, deceit, loyalty, martyrdom, truth and conversion a perfect companion to Come Rack, Come Rope!ĭedicated with affection to Sergio Gómez Moyano the greatest specialist of Robert Hugh Benson in Spain. But through it all, the few priests that remained were able to sustain and convert many. Families were divided fathers and sons were thrown into jail priests were hunted down and killed neighbor turned against neighbor. In the midst of all this exists the relationship between a young man and a young lady one a Catholic, the other a Protestant.ĭuring the Protestant Reformation, Catholic families suffered persecutions of various types.

The reader will find himself traveling across the English countryside hunting for priests the next minute witnessing the happenings at the Queens court.

Sir Nicholas is the rock-solid head of his household and a devout Catholic who helps renegade priests hide from her Majestys men but across the way lives a Protestant minister with a suspicious eye. This he achieved without the use of the stereotypes that characterized virtually all such productions in his day to the detriment of both sides of the question. BY WHAT AUTHORITY? is Robert Hugh Benson's first in a series of three novels designed to tell the story of the English Reformation from the Catholic point of view.

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