In 1588, barely a few weeks after the Spanish Armada was defeated, two English Jesuit priests landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. Their mission: to return England to the Catholic church. Eighteen years later their assignment was shattered by the actions of a small group of terrorists, remembered in history as the Gunpowder Plotters. The future of every Catholic the Jesuits had come to save depended on the silence of a carpenter – a builder of priest holes – who was tortured in the Tower of London. God’s Secret Agents reveals the other side of Elizabethan England, a country at war with an invisible enemy of traitors, fifth-columnists, and assassins. In the eyes of the state England’s Catholics, a minority community struggling to maintain its faith against a backdrop of open hostility, was that unseen enemy. This is the story of the men who put their lives on the line for a cause they believed in.
Paperback: 504 Pages
Language: English
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover & Paperback
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