A dramatised account of the Venerable Nicholas Postgate and the Catholic families he ministered to before his capture and execution in 1679. The account centres around a family situated at Littlebeck near Whitby, North Yorkshire and follows the family as they continue to live their lives as Catholics in penal times. Secret masses, funerals at midnight, court appearances, fines and imprisonment are just some of the trials that the family and the other Catholic families of England faced. Culminating in the arrest of Father Nicholas Postgate at Matthew Lyth's house whilst baptising his son Ambrose Lyth in 1679. With a review by: Mark Edwards Hon. Keeper of Whitby museum, North Yorkshire:
ISBN 9781906933524
PARALLELS: SUMMER HOLIDAY. Stuart Finch is going on holiday with his family. They are all looking forward to a week in Blackpool. Sea, sand and fresh fish and chips! Driving on the motorway the car has a tyre blow out and somersaults across the motorway and down the embankment. Stuart is suddenly woken up by Mary, his wife shouting at him. Stuart had fallen asleep at the wheel and dreamt that they had crashed. In Blackpool Stuart meets an old man named James who claims to be an angel. What follows next is a web of intrigue, an earth tremor and a near miss at sea. Stuart attends his own funeral and plans to murder his family, urged on by James the angel....
A dramatised account of the Venerable Nicholas Postgate and the Catholic families he ministered to before his capture and execution in 1679. The account centres around a family situated at Littlebeck near Whitby, North Yorkshire and follows the family as they continue to live their lives as Catholics in penal times. Secret masses, funerals at midnight, court appearances, fines and imprisonment are just some of the trials that the family and the other Catholic families of England faced. Culminating in the arrest of Father Nicholas Postgate at Matthew Lyth's house whilst baptising his son Ambrose Lyth in 1679. With a review by: Mark Edwards Hon. Keeper of Whitby museum, North Yorkshire:
PARALLELS: SUMMER HOLIDAY. Stuart Finch is going on holiday with his family. They are all looking forward to a week in Blackpool. Sea, sand and fresh fish and chips! Driving on the motorway the car has a tyre blow out and somersaults across the motorway and down the embankment. Stuart is suddenly woken up by Mary, his wife shouting at him. Stuart had fallen asleep at the wheel and dreamt that they had crashed. In Blackpool Stuart meets an old man named James who claims to be an angel. What follows next is a web of intrigue, an earth tremor and a near miss at sea. Stuart attends his own funeral and plans to murder his family, urged on by James the angel....
