God's Secret Agents - Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
Author(s): Alice Hogge
As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. Their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church.Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of a small group of terrorists, the Gunpowder Plotters; they, themselves, had been accused of designing 'that most horrid and hellish conspiracy'; and the future of every Catholic they had come to save depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner, builder of priest-holes, being tortured in the Tower of London.
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- : HarperCollins
- : HarperCollins
- : January 2005
- : books
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- : Alice Hogge
- : Paperback
- : 445