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Come Rack! Come Rope!
Robert Hugh Benson
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Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their chance of happiness together, choosing instead to face imprisonment and martyrdom, so that "God's will" may be done.
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their chance of happiness together, choosing instead to face imprisonment and martyrdom, so that "God's will" may be done.
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Two things made this tale of Catholic persecution under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I stand out to me. First was the creeping nature of it, from people all turning a more-or-less blind eye to their Catholic neighbors bringing in priests to celebrate Mass which steadily progressed to active persecuti
A painful reminder of the current soullessness of the world. Not even in a religious sense, although that is the most obvious parallel but publicly and privately the world today is a pale faded remnant when compared to the days when faith was a reason to die and something to die for. The hysterical
From wikipedia:
The book was written nearly nine years after Benson's reception into the Catholic Church. The inspiration for the story comes from Dom Bede Camm's account of the recusant Fitzherbert family in Forgotten Shrines (1910), and from Benson's own visit in 1911 to Padley, home of the Fitzher
This is a historical novel that takes place during the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics. The two protagonists are Robin and Margaret. As the book begins, they are sweethearts, but Margaret increasingly comes to believe Robin is called to the priesthood -- a destiny he comes to accept. From that
This a very good novel. Four and a half stars to be precise but I rounded down. Why round down? It didn’t reach the sense of a classic for me. I had the same Four and a half rating for Benson’s great novel, Lord of the World, but with that I rounded up. I would say Lord of the World is an unheralded
I apologize to my followers, because they already know, like Spanish I am pleased the day of the Epiphany, and that day I like to give them my followers a critique of a book that has been read by these dates.
In the year 2019 could have chosen the sleeve of the Bible of Siku, which, at the moment, de
ENGLISH: I liked this historical novel about the persecution against the Catholics in the days of Elizabeth I of England even more than the dystopian novel by the same author, "Lord of the World." The author has almost followed my three golden rules for historical novels: the main characters should
Having read two of Robert Hugh Benson's novels I have been looking to read Come Rack! Come Rope! which has been highly recommended. When I was looking over the new Catholic Digital Downloads section at Aquinas & More Catholic Goods I noticed they had this novel available and so bought and downloaded