The Martyr’s Crown
Rome and the English Church
by Paul Keane
Flexiback
Price: £17.50
Publisher:Family Publications have ceased trading
Published:09 September 2009
ISBN:978-1-907-38000-6
GoodBookStall Review:
This is a book depicting the wall paintings made in 1583 in the English College in Rome. The paintings illustrate the history of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, starting with St Alban and Constantine, but commemorating principally the martyrs of Elizabethan England. There are thirty four pictures in all, reproduced in full colour, some of them naturally very gruesome, there being no attempt by the artist to minimise the horror of the executions. Each picture is accompanied by an explanatory text detailing the life and death of each martyr. It is by its nature a book about Catholics for Catholics, but it deserves a wider audience as it depicts one period of persecution in our history that is not limited to one faith.
Reviewer: John Irvine (01/01/10)
This is a book depicting the wall paintings made in 1583 in the English College in Rome. The paintings illustrate the history of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, starting with St Alban and Constantine, but commemorating principally the martyrs of Elizabethan England. There are thirty four pictures in all, reproduced in full colour, some of them naturally very gruesome, there being no attempt by the artist to minimise the horror of the executions. Each picture is accompanied by an explanatory text detailing the life and death of each martyr. It is by its nature a book about Catholics for Catholics, but it deserves a wider audience as it depicts one period of persecution in our history that is not limited to one faith.
Reviewer: John Irvine (01/01/10)
