Word: ronalds
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...Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was the sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both of his grandfathers had also been Protestant clergymen). Religion began to serve him at the age of 15; when a friend came down with typhoid, Ronnie lived on bread and butter for six weeks. His friend died, and Knox prayed for him 15 minutes each day "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy. At 24, he became the Anglican chaplain of Oxford University's Trinity College...
Five years later, in 1917, Ronald Knox resigned and entered the Roman Catholic Church. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he said later. In his new church, too, Knox was ordained to the priesthood, and soon he was back at Oxford, this time as a Catholic chaplain. For 13 years there-boom years among undergraduates for Marx, sex and sneering at authority-wispy Father Knox made his rooms a gathering place for the university's most glittering wits. It was then that he began producing smoothly turned detective novels, e.g., The Body in the Silo, The Viaduct...
Face to Face. About 18 months ago, Ronald Knox, working on a translation of the Autobiography of Ste. Therese of Lisieux, began to feel poorly. In January he had surgery for cancer of the intestine, and the doctors found the disease so far advanced that his condition was hopeless. But before he had known how ill he was, Knox had accepted an invitation to deliver the prestigious Romanes Lecture at Oxford in June. He was still determined...
Frail, grey, seated on the dais with a physician hovering in attendance, one of the greatest translators of his day spoke of his art with characteristic modesty, common sense and fun. But behind the gentle, witty deprecation of Ronald Knox's last public words lay his light-filled rendering of the Bible as Catholics may read it generations hence...
Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION...