Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization and a practical devotional for

and a practical devotional for traditional Catholic spiritual reading

not directly by the people

and his resolute vision for papal authority

Had they imagined when they gave in their names that their mission was to be free from risk and peril

Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization and a practical devotional forThis volume gathers three portraits from that vanished civilization: Alcuin of York, the Benedictine scholar who helped shape the mind of Christendom; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ascend the Chair of Peter; and the Elizabethan martyrs, whose blood consecrated a land already in ruin. All are men formed by a world in which the Faith governed law, language, and kingship. With selections from E. M. Wilmot Buxton, Richard Raby, and Dom Bede Camm,