RECUSANT HOUSE PILGRIMAGE

26th May to 3rd June
with Fr Peter Milward SJ and Michael Hodgetts

Places very limited. Please write soon to pre-register.

The English Reformation initiated by Henry VIII and consolidated by his daughter Elizabeth created a new crime: “recusancy”, or refusal to attend the new services of the Church of England. Hundreds of Catholics were brutally hunted down and killed in the persecutions that followed. Our pilgrimage is led by experts on the period, Fr Peter Milward SJ and Church historian Michael Hodgetts, and will go to many of the houses and sites associated with these English Catholic martyrs.

The tour will include:
Oxford, Stonor, Harvington,
Stratford; King Lear
Abbot’s Salford, Baddesley Clinton
Cambridge, Walsingham, London

FEES
£1,093 (£1,293 single occupancy). Includes all coach transport, entrance tickets, and accommodation (half-board basis).

GUIDES
Peter Milward SJ published his first book, An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plays in 1964, followed by Christian Themes in English Literature, 1967. After further research at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham, 1965-66, he published Shakespeare’s Religious Background, 1973; and went on to publish two volumes of Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age and the Jacobean Age in 1977 and 1978. He is the editor of Renaissance Monographs and first director of the Renaissance Centre in Sophia University. His most recent books include Shakespeare the Papist, A Life with Hopkins, and A Poetic Approach to Ecology.
Fr Milward's home page

See also The Catholic Record Society for further information and events on the Catholic dissident movement in early modern times.

In the Footsteps of Faith

Saturday 26th May 2007
Arrivals at Parklands Hotel, 100 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6JU Tel 01865 554374
Check in from 1.00pm onwards. Meet at hotel at 6.45pm to walk to local restaurant for supper at 7.15pm, followed by orientation back at hotel.

Sunday 27th May 2007
Various options for Mass in morning, and free time.
Tour of Oxford in afternoon, to include colleges and St Mary the Virgin.
Supper in town centre.

Monday 28th May 2007
Visits to Stonor and Mapledurham. Supper in Oxford.

Tuesday 29th May 2007
Travel to Harvington and Abbot’s Salford, where we spend the next two nights. Trip to Stratford upon Avon, with early supper before RSC performance of King Lear starring Sir Ian McKellen.
Salford Hall Hotel Tel 01386 871300

Wednesday 30th May 2007
Visits to Baddesley Clinton and Coughton. Supper at hotel.

Thursday 31st May 2007
We continue on to Lyveden and Triangular Lodge, arriving in late afternoon at the Arundel House Hotel in Cambridge, where we will stay for the next three nights. Supper at hotel. Tel 01223 367701

Friday 1st June 2007
Tour of Cambridge and visit to Ely. Supper at hotel.

Saturday 2nd June 2007
Visits to Oxburgh and Walsingham, with Mass at shrine. Supper at hotel.

Sunday 3rd June 2007
Depart from Cambridge for London, visits to Westminster Cathedral and Tyburn Convent. Arrangements to be made for leaving luggage for those ending the tour at this point. Overseas visitors have option of staying at hotel near Paddington, where they catch airport train Monday morning.