Lodge CP, Fr Ben
Life of a nineteenth-century convert and missionary to the Irish
An English aristocrat with a European view of the world, George Spencer left his Anglican rectory at Althorp, entered the Catholic Church, and then worked as parish priest in the Black Country.
His vocation led him to enter the Passionist Order taking the name Father Ignatius, and from there on spent his life working for the unity of all Christians.
Much of his work centred on Ireland where he argued that if the Irish prayed for their English oppressor, God would listen to their prayers.
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