Priest-holes – those small spaces in old English houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the Elizabethan persecutions – have always occupied a place in the imagination of the history of the Catholic Church in England, for many a priest was dragged from them to torture, trial and Tyburn for his part in keeping the faith alive in desperate times. Michael Hodgetts’s unrivalled expertise on this aspect of English Catholicism turned a softly-spoken schoolmaster into one of the leading recusant historians of his generation.
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Michael Hodgetts: distinguished recusant historian who oversaw the restoration of Harvington Hall
priest-holes – those small spaces in old english houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the elizabethan persecution...
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