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The recently published Life of Sister Mary of St. Philip who at her death in 1904 had for nearly fifty years been the moving spirit of the great work of the Notre Dame Training College at Liverpool, has been described as “incidentally the history of Catholic education in this country from the days of Catholic Emancipation.” In his Introduction, the late Archbishop of Liverpool illustrates this by saying that
“the Training College alone has sheltered beneath its roof thousands of teachers who, during half a century have gone forth to build up temples ‘not made with hands’ in the souls of the Catholic children of England”; and he thanks God for Sister Mary’s help in the crisis created by the Education Act of 1870, “when the future of the Church in England was in the balance.”
It is not, however, on the book as a record of Catholic education that these lines are written ; they are limited to its introductory chapters. These contain much that is of interest concerning the life of English Catholics during the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Restoration of the Hierarchy (1850)—five years before Sister Mary of St. Philip began her great work; and this notice, like the chapters on which it is based, may be regarded as introductory to the biography itself.
It is essential to remember at the outset that . . . just as in material affairs, things that are the merest commonplaces of daily life or have already become obsolete, were then unheard of and unknown, so two of the most important factors of English Catholic life as we now know it were in 1829 practically non-existent.
* Longmans.
* Sequel to Catholic Emancipation. 11. 145. Google Scholar
†The Second Spring.
* This reference to one of Father Plater's imitations of the improving verses of Mrs. Elizabeth Turner was written before the present writer, in common with all who knew him, had to deplore his loss.