But why did the writer’s conversion take so long?
On July 30, 1922, at the Railway Hotel, in Beaconsfield, England, G.K. Chesterton became a Catholic. In the absence of a local Catholic church, the Railway Hotel’s Irish landlady had allowed the ballroom to be converted into a makeshift chapel. It was there, beneath a corrugated-iron roof and surrounded by bare wooden walls, the 48-year-old writer entered into full communion with the Church.
What were the reasons for Chesterton taking this step?
And, given his thought and writings on Christianity for many years, why had it taken him so long?
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“Something happened at the Basilica of Ecce Homo,” said Marco Sermarini, president of the Italian Chesterton Society. Speaking to the Register, Sermarini said he thinks that Holy Land trip clarified things irrevocably for the Englishman. “Frances’ diary records that they went three times to the Basilica of Ecce Homo. The first visit, on March 4, was by Frances alone; then they went together, on March 26, in the morning,” he explained, “and, again, for a blessing the next day in the afternoon. There, they had a long conversation with an English nun. We have no other record of this, but it is certain that Chesterton was particularly touched by this place or, perhaps more correctly, everything became clear there.”
C'è dell'altro ancora, con contributi di Dale Ahlquist (presidente della Society of G. K. Chesterton, la Società Chestertoniana Americana), di Karl Schmude (presidente della Società Chestertoniana Australiana) e, come vedete, di Marco Sermarini (il nostro presidente).
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