Stonor Recusant House
We visited Stonor House today. It is listed as number 7 in the list of 25 most magnificent houses in the UK. It is home to the Stonor family and has been in their family for 850 years. They hid Edmund Campion and even own one of four of the original slim volumes of EC's "Ten Reasons" the curator seemed very apologetic and cited them as political rather than religious reasons to remain Catholic. Apparently there were copies of the Douay Rheims Bible but unfortunately I didn't spot them. I think I may have bumped into a rather nice link between Recusant families in Britain - there was a portrait of Catherine Lady Abergavenny and her stepdaughter Elizabeth Neville. David Lewis of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales was born in Abergavenny and the local hospital there is actually called Neville Hall...
The Stonors were negotiators in the Catholic Emancipation law 1829 and it seems that one of their ancestors -Mary Stonor /nee Biddulph (The Biddulphs are still a strong family in South Wales (one of them was running for MP and arrested in a pro-life ralley) was co-heiress to the Camoys title, and it was called out of abeyance in 1839 by Thomas Stonor in order to give the Catholic family some standing and weight in society. The current Lord Camoys is the first Roman Catholic to be Lord Chamberlin since the Reformation, Please pray for him and his son.
St Edmund Campion - ora pro nobis.
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Comment by Kate Jackson on August 1, 2017 at 2:47am
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St Edmund Campion Pray for us. Amen
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Comment by Flavia Talladen Schott on May 2, 2017 at 2:09pm
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St. Edmund Campion, pray for us. Amen.
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Comment by Michael on April 17, 2017 at 11:13pm
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Kate, can you post any pictures?
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Thank you for posting. Very interesting.
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