The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-08
REGENT CONVERTS
To CATHOLICISM
prominent Members of the Learned
4 Professions, Of Diplomatic and
Military Circles, in saxony
and in the British Isles
Join. the Church.


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1t has often been stated in the past,
and occasionally we hear it said to-
day, that the doctrines of the Catholic
Church do not appeal to the better
educated class among Protestants.
But the records of converts from Pro-
testantism during the past few years
prove that it is precisely among the
more intelligent non-Catholics that the
Catholic Church makes greatest head
way. Recently The Catholic Bulletin
published a list of Anglican ministers.
graduates of Oxford, Cambridge
and other universities, who have not
only accepted the teaching of the
Church, but have entered the ranks
OF the priesthood.
The. good work goes on quietly, al
most unnoticed, because there is no
flourish of trumpets to hail the advent
OF new recruits. Year by year the
Church gathers into her fold scores of
the more enlightened representatives
OF Professionalism who are supplement-
ing their fragmentary knowledge of
religion with the fuflness of revealed
doctrine taught by the Mother Church
of Christendom. 1t may not be unin-
teresting to record the names of the
more prominent of the past years
converts to Catholicism from the vari-
GUS walks of life represented by the
ministry, law, literature, journalism,
art, etc., as well as in diplomatic and
military circles.
In the Saxon Capital.
Our Dresden correspondent fur
nishes list of well-known person
ages who, during the past twelve
months, have Joined the Catholic
Church in the Saxon capital. This is
all the more remarkable as Dresden
is one of the strongest Lutheran cities
in Europe.
Among the American converts are
Mrs. St. John Gaffney, wife of the
American onsul-General in Dresden;
Mrs. James Watson Benton, daughter
of the late General Guy V. Henry, U.
S. Army, the first American Governor
New York; Mrs. Heylin Ashton, whose
late husband was grandson of Cyrus
w. Field. Miss Lentilhon's mother is
also a convert. Mrs. st. John Gaffney
was under instruction in Dresden, but
was received into the Church by Mon
signor F. B. Wall, D. D., in New York
last fall Within the past month the
Baroness O'Byrn, wife of the military
governor of the Royal Saxon Princes
has also jointed the Church. Her
husband is a descendant of an ancient
Irish family which for two centuries
Saxon Court.
In the British Isles.
To the foregoing we may add the
following list of prominent converts
to Catholicism during the past year,
in the British Isles:
Thomas Henry Bolton, Taxing Mas
ter in Chancery and Master of the
Supreme Court of London; on two
occasions member of Parliament for
North st. Pancras.
Miss Mellops- Morris, miniature
painter and artist
N. W. Sibley, Winchester College,
B. A, Trinity Hall, Cambridge; bar
rister-at-law and author; son of Gen.
T. II. Sibley, of the Bengal Staff
Corps
Mrs. Ada Hunt-Grubbe, wife of Cap
tain Henry G. Hunt Grubbe, r. A., and
sister-in-law of Admiral Sir Walter
Hunt-Grubbe, r. N.
Arthur Blood-Smyth, Esq, Cootehill,
Co. Cavan, a lawyer prominent in
Orange and Masonic circles.
John Wrightson, B. A., Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, candidate for the priest
hood at Rome, and late student for
orders in the Protestant Church of
ireland.
William p Addleshaw, B. A., Christ
Church, Oxford
G. Tinline Button, B. A., New Col
lege, Oxford.
Philip King, B. A., ST. Edmund's
Hall, Oxford
Rev. David Rhys- Morgan, B. A., Ok
ford, Welsh parson.
Rev. John Haughton Steels, late
minister of the Protestant Church OF
Ireland at Crom, County Fermanagh,
for % years chaplain to the Earl of
Erne, grandmaster of the Orangemen;
now studying in Rome for the priest
hood
Henry Tweed, barrister-at-law, Bill
erisay, Essex, and Mrs. Tweed.
Miss Ethel Agar, painter, London.
Mrs. Robert Gardiner, of Cadogan
So, London, w.
Llewellyn Green-Price, son of Sir
Richard Green-Price, barOnet.
Miss Georgina Herslit, daughter OF
Mr. Louis Herslit, librarian of the
Foreign Office, London