Portal:Catholic Church/DYK/55


 * ... that Charles Langdale (pictured) was one of the first Catholics to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829?
 * ... that Father Tacchi Venturi, SJ, the personal liaison between Mussolini and Popes Pius XI and Pius XII, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy?
 * ... that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was a patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop?