Patrick McLaughlin was an English Roman Catholic lay brother of the Order of Saint Benedict and a Christian writer, as well as a former Anglican priest until he became a Roman Catholic in 1962. While
St Anne's Church, Soho
The Towers of Trebizond
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The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay. Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels, and the most successful. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the ye
Patrick McLaughlin (churchman)
…With Father Gilbert Shaw, McLaughlin is thought to be part of the inspiration for the character of Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956). Macaulay described McLaughlin as a "many-sided kind of priest, whom I like". McLaughlin introduced into England the 'Basilican mode', in which…
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