The shrine to the Virgin at Glastonbury dates back to the first century, to the very dawn of Christianity the shrine at Walsingham dates from a Marian apparition a thousand years later (1061). She is the Mother of True England as truly as she is the Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church. JP: True England is as inseparable from the Mother of God as is God from the Mother of God. Mary of Glastonbury and the Shrine of Walsingham? LS: Could we say that the heart of “true England” is Marian, as shown in the history of the little chapel of St. True England and secular Britain are as different as Christ and anti-Christ. True England lays down its national life in faithful service to Christ and His Church secular Britain has crushed the freedom of weaker nations in its quest for materialistic empowerment. True England is small and beautiful Britain is “great” and imperialistic. This true England is very different from secular Britain.

There has been a continual Catholic presence in England ever since, in good times and bad, in times of prosperity and in times of persecution. The first Christian missionaries arrived in England in the first century, shortly after the Roman Conquest, probably in 63AD, only thirty years after the Crucifixion. Such an England has a continuous history of almost two thousand years. True England is, therefore, Christian England. Jesus Christ proclaimed that he is the way, the truth and the life. JP: In essence, “true England” is the England which has been true to the truth itself or, more correctly, the England which has been true to the Truth Himself. LS: Your book, Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England, is focused on the key idea of a true England, in contrast with a secular Britain. Luisella Scrosati interviews Joseph Pearce. In essence, “true England” is the England which has been true to the truth itself or, more correctly, the England which has been true to the Truth Himself.

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