The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. Its origins date from the 6th century, when Pope Gregory I through a Roman missio
Westminster Cathedral is the "Mother Church for Catholics in England and Wales".
St. Alban is regarded as the protomartyr of the Roman Britons.
Frontispiece of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert, showing King Æthelstan
Our Lady of Walsingham
Recusancy
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Recusancy was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
Catholic Church in England and Wales
…represented by the church hierarchy and much of the nobility". For 250 years, the government forced members of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church known as recusants to go underground for academic training in Catholic Europe, where exiled English clergy set up schools and seminaries for the sons of English recusant…
William Shakespeare came from a family background of English Catholic recusants.