During the Persecution: Autobiography of Father John Gerard
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102
1886
English
- Preface
- My Life before Ordination
- Arrival in England as a Priest
- Residence in the County of Norfolk
- My new Residence, and another change
- My Excursions, and their fruit
- My first hiding-place
- Some account of Father Oldcorne
- An account of some remarkable Relics
- Beginnings of danger
- My second hiding-place
- My capture and examinations
- A digression
- Other examinations
- My prison is changed for the better
- Martyrdom of Mistress Anne Line
- Life and work in Prison
- Continuation of my Life in the Clink
- How Topcliffe was among the Prophets
- How I was sent to the Tower
- My first torture
- My second torture
- Life in the Tower
- Mass in the Tower
- Plan of escape
- Escape from the Tower
- How the gaoler escaped too
- Fortunate precautions
- A change of quarters
- Another narrow escape
- Further history of John Lilly
- More dangers
- Some quiet work
- A Protestant dignitary
- Three Fathers of the Society
- Containing further interesting matters
- Some remarkable conversions
- A conversion at Court
- A conversion in the country
- The troubles of the Powder Plot
- Fathers Garnet and Oldcorne
- The rest of my personal history
Fr. John Gerard (1564 – 1637) was an English Jesuit priest who operated covertly in England during the Elizabethan era, during which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution.
Gerard notably not only successfully hid from the English authorities for eight years before his capture but also endured extensive torture, escaped from the Tower of London, recovered and continued with his covert mission. After his escape to the Continent, he was instructed by his Jesuit superiors to write a book about his life. This is a rare first-hand account of the dangerous cloak-and-dagger world of a Catholic priest in Elizabethan England.
This book, from a later translation, is more well known under the title "Autobiography of a Hunted Priest". (Adapted from wikipedia)
Gerard notably not only successfully hid from the English authorities for eight years before his capture but also endured extensive torture, escaped from the Tower of London, recovered and continued with his covert mission. After his escape to the Continent, he was instructed by his Jesuit superiors to write a book about his life. This is a rare first-hand account of the dangerous cloak-and-dagger world of a Catholic priest in Elizabethan England.
This book, from a later translation, is more well known under the title "Autobiography of a Hunted Priest". (Adapted from wikipedia)
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