Join The Institute for Human Ecology for a virtual event, Curious Catholic Converts: Selections from the William Klimon Collection of Catholic Convert Literature.
While most are familiar with major Catholic converts like St. John Henry Newman, St. Edith Stein, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Merton, many lesser-known Catholic converts led fascinating lives and left interesting literary remains. For more than 25 years, William Klimon has been collecting the literature of Catholic conversion, as well as related ephemera and art. This presentation will focus on four lesser-known converts whose lives and faith journeys are illuminated by items from Klimon’s collection.
While most are familiar with major Catholic converts like St. John Henry Newman, St. Edith Stein, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Merton, many lesser-known Catholic converts led fascinating lives and left interesting literary remains. For more than 25 years, William Klimon has been collecting the literature of Catholic conversion, as well as related ephemera and art. This presentation will focus on four lesser-known converts whose lives and faith journeys are illuminated by items from Klimon’s collection.
- Thomas Low Nichols (1815 – 1901) was a physician and writer whose life and faith show that the New Age isn’t all that new;
- Stanley Morison (1889 – 1967) invented something that probably most people use every day, but most people have never heard his name, let alone knew that he was a Catholic convert;
- Peter F. Anson (1889 – 1975), the son of a British admiral, he was for many years an Anglican monk. After his conversion, he lived a rather itinerant life despite being a gifted artist and the author of several dozen books on, among other things, several of his fellow converts; and
- John C. H. Wu (1899 – 1986) was a Chinese lawyer, jurist, and legal and religious scholar, deeply involved in the Chinese tradition but with a great debt to the Little Flower.
This event is free and open to the public.
