Crossbows and Crucifixes

England, 1585: Queen Elizabeths spies lurk everywhere, searching out Catholics who refuse to attend thenon-Catholic services of the State religion. Officers of the law huntdown and kill Catholic priests, and imprison those who shelter them.Inthese perilous times, fifteen-year-old Nicholas Thorpe discovers thathis widowed mother has become Catholic, and he soon joins the Churchshe has come to love.Thus beginNicholas s adventures in the Companions, a pious underground army ofresistance that shelters priests and leads them in strict secrecy andgreat danger from one estate to another, so the Catholic faithful cancontinue to receive the Sacraments the law now forbids.Inthis adventure for all ages, author Henry Garnett brings to life thedrama of a nation where unjust laws forced good men and women to choosebetween their country and their Faith, and young people heard early andwell the call to heroism that Christians must be ever ready to heed. Recommended in Seton Home Study Grade 7 Publishe