Crossbows and Crucifixes: A Novel of the Priest Hunters and the Brave Young Men Who Fought Them
By Henry Garnett.
Description
Former title: A Trumpet Sounds England, 1585:Queen Elizabeth s spies lurk everywhere, searching out Catholics who refuse to attend the non-Catholic services of the State religion. Officers of the law hunt down and kill Catholic priests, and imprison those who shelter them. In these perilous times, fifteen-year-old Nicholas Thorpe discovers that his widowed mother has become Catholic, and he soon joins the Church she has come to love. Thus begin Nicholas s adventures in the Companions, a pious underground army of resistance that shelters priests and leads them in strict secrecy and great dan...
ISBN(s)
1933184361, 9781933184364
