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We are pleased to announce the publication of the much anticipated biography of the Reverend Rowland Broomhead, one of the key figures in the Catholic revival in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The book is the result of many years of work by Mr Peter Lupton, of Norden near Rochdale, an old boy of St Bede’s College, Manchester, and is a ‘must-buy’ for anybody interested in the restoration of the English Catholic church.
The book has been published by Gracewing and is available from their website and from all good online booksellers at the price of £20.
ok describes how the worshipping community developed around the small Benedictine cell established in the grounds of Lytham Hall, was pastored in Penal times and beyond by Jesuits on the English Mission and by priests of the Northern Vicariate, until the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act created the climate which allowed Fr Walmsley to set up the present church on Clifton Street. The ensuing 175 years have seen 8 parish priests, a large number of curates and assistant priests, 3 permanent deacons and two congregations of religious sisters working to support the Catholics of Lytham. However, this book is more than the story of a building or a history of priests: it is the story of how we and our ancestors have lived our Catholic Faith in response to the varied challenges of these times, with lay people playing an ever greater role.
