Catholic Gallery

Rock Ferry St Margaret's Home

St Margaret's Home for Roman Catholic girls at Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, was run by the Sisters of Charity. It trained young women to help prevent them falling into immoral situations and was also a Magdalen Home for penitents who had already 'fallen'. Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

1907, Birkenhead, Catholic, Charity, Circa, Falling, Ferry, Girls, Home, Immoral, Magdalen, Margarets, Prevent, Rock, Roman, Run, Sisters, Situations, St, Trained, Women, Young

Galileo and his daughter Maria Celeste

Galilei Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer, being guided by his daughter Maria Celeste (1600-1634), a nun. In 1633, Galileo was tried for heresy by the Roman Catholic Church for his support of the heliocentric Copernican theory. He was kept under house arrest for the rest of his life and later went blind. Artwork from Les Martyrs de la Science (G. Tissandier, 1882).

© SHEILA TERRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio

3504766 Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio by Simmons, Jodi; 30.5x20cm cm; Private Collection; in copyright.

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