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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2016
It is not often that a full-length work on recusant history appears in a foreign language, and for this reason the Reverend Bruno Navarra's book in Italian, Filippo Michele Ellis: Segni e la sua Diocesi nei primi del ‘700 (Roma, Centro Studi del Lazio [1973], Piazza Montecitorio, 115), should be brought to the attention of Recusant History readers. This book on Philip Michael Ellis, O.S.B., first Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, and later Bishop of Segni in Italy, should be most welcome to anyone interested in English Catholicism during the time of James II and the early years of the eighteenth century. There has been a noticeable lack of biographical research, either general or particular, on those involved in the organization of the English Catholic Church at the end of the seventeenth century. Perhaps the time has come for a more specific picture of this period; to a very limited degree Navarra has filled some of the lacuna.
1 Philip's father, John Ellis, rector of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, had six sons: Philip was the third; the oldest, John became Under-Secretary of State for William III; the second, William, although a Protestant, was Secretary of State for James II in exile; the fourth, Welbore, became Anglican Bishop of Kildare, Ireland (1705-31) and later of Meath (1731-34); the fifth, Samuel, was named Marshal of the King's Bench; the sixth, Charles, took Anglican orders.
2 It was in the cathedral of Segni that Pope Alexander III proclaimed the canonization of St Thomas of Canterbury in 1173, three years after the martyr's death.