Candidates for Martyrdom, by William Henry Boucher (1837-1906). Judy, (6 June 1877): 77-78. Courtesy of the Hathi Trust and Harvard University. Click on image to enlarge it.
Inspired by John Henry Newman, who famously left the Church of England for Roman Catholicism, many young Anglican clergymen came to believe that England had thrown the baby out with the bathwater when it abandoned much of the earlier church’s own practices. When High Anglican churchmen began to reintroduce incense, candles, and wearing elaborate vestments this led to a great fuss. Interestingly, a number of prominent ultra-high Churchmen devoted themselves to parishes in particularly poor and underserved parts of London.
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