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FORTE SCUTUM SALUS DUCUM: "A STRONG SHIELD IS THE SALVATION OF LEADERS"First edition of this two-part biography of Adrian Fortescue, "the greatest authority on the liturgy of the Roman Rite the English-speaking world has ever known" (Michael Davies) and the founder of The Church of St. Hugh of Lincoln in Letchworth. Complete in the uncommon original dust jacket.Adrian Fortescue was descended from Blessed Adrian Fortescue, the recusant martyr beheaded at the Tower of London in July 1539 and beatified by Leo XIII in 1895 (just three years before the younger Fortescue was ordained). The versatile Fortescue embarked on a brilliant career, writing extensively on the Eastern churches and the Roman liturgy, before his untimely death in 1923. The work consists of a series of brief character sketches by the Rev. John Vance, followed by a Personal Memoir by J.W. Fortescue, Father Fortescue's nephew. The text is supplemented with a frontispiece portrait (by Mrs. M.D. Spooner), a photographic portrait, and six… Read More

"I HAVE PASSED THROUGH A PERIOD OF RELIGIOUS CRISIS, I HAVE THOUGHT MUCH ON RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS, AND I OFFER HERE MY PERSONAL REACTION TO THAT CRISIS"First edition of M.D. Petre's autobiography, a philosophical memoir of the Modernist Crisis in the early twentieth-century Church. Uncommon.Maude Dominica Petre was born into an old Catholic Recusant family (a family member went on to found the Cisapline Club). Petre was embroiled in the Modernist movement and her compassionate portraits of Friedrich von Hügel, Henri Bremond and Alfred Loisy, and especially George Tyrrell are definitive. Part I. Childhood and Early Religious Training, Part II. Youth and Middle Life, Part III. Process of Religious Belief, Part IV. Modernism, Part V. Three Friendships, Part VI. Before, During, and Since the Great War, Part VII. The Final Quest. The publisher echoed Petre's modern stance in the design for the book. settling on a bold, unapologetic dust jacket with a sans-serif type face, unusual for the Art Deco era.… Read More

"TO HAVE REMAINED INDEFINITELY AS AN ANGLICAN WOULD NOW MEAN FOR ME SPIRITUAL DEATH"First edition recounting Edward Charles Rich's 1956 "submission to the Catholic and Roman Church," in the original typographic dust jacket. Rich's Anglo-Catholicism grew into an Anglo-Papalism, driven by a desire for unity and a need for authority. The text, divided into nine chapters, concludes with Rich's epiphany: "That night I suddenly awoke and knew that not only had my work in the Church of England come to end; it had also ceased to be possible for me to continue. To have remained indefinitely as an Anglican would now mean for me spiritual death." Rich spent a few days at Downside Abbey, where it was arranged for him to be received at Farm Street on May 19th, the Vigil of Pentecost. The next day—after 35 years in the ministry of the Church of England—Rich made his first Communion and was confirmed by Cardinal Griffin in Westminster Cathedral. With a short Foreword (initialed "E.C.R") focusing on the doctrine… Read More