John Gerard, Elizabethan Jesuit Missionary - Crisis Magazine

John Gerard, Elizabethan Jesuit Missionary - Crisis Magazine: The life of John Gerard, an English Catholic and Jesuit missionary priest, well illustrates what is at stake when the power of the state is enlisted against the Catholic faith and church. The persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I meant that the English government hunted down John Gerard as though he were …