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Ronald Knox

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Born: February 16 1888

Died: 2323 08 19571957

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.

Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he re-translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.

He died on 24 August 1957 and his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral. Bishop Craven celebrated the requiem mass, at which Father Martin D'Arcy, a Jesuit, preached the panegyric. Knox was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Mells.

Ronald Knox

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 16 1888

Died: 2323 08 19571957

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.

Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he re-translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.

He died on 24 August 1957 and his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral. Bishop Craven celebrated the requiem mass, at which Father Martin D'Arcy, a Jesuit, preached the panegyric. Knox was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Mells.

Books from Ronald Knox

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Classic Crime)

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The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Scoop / Behind the Screen

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Creed in Slow Motion

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Six Against the Yard

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I delitti della camera chiusa

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The Body in the Silo

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Two Conversion Stories (CTS Onefifties)

Waiting for Christ

The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories

Some Loose Stones: Being A Consideration Of Certain Tendencies In Modern Theology, Illustrated By Reference To The Book Called Foundations (1913)

The Church on Earth: The Nature and Authority of the Catholic Church, and the Place of the Pope Within It

The Motive

Memories of the Future: Being Memoirs of the Years 1915-1972; Written in the Year of Grace, 1988

Reverend Ronald Knox Collection [3 Books]

A Spiritual Aeneid

Still Dead

The Lost Works of Ronald Knox - Catholic Answers Classics Edition

Barchester Pilgrimage