Peter Frederick Anson was a marine artist and author of many books on fishing life and religious orders. For fourteen years a brother in an Anglican monastery, he moved over to the Cistercians in the Roman Catholic Church. Coming to the Moray Firth, he spent six years with the fishermen of Buckie and twenty years at Macduff, where he became involved with the Scottish national movement. His most famous book is Fishing Boats and Fisher Folk on the East Coast of Scotland, but his Fisher Folklore is also a standard work.
Focusing on the architectural significance of churches, this guide explores the construction and design of these iconic buildings that have been central to communities for nearly two millennia. It highlights the scarcity and rising costs of early 20th-century texts, offering a modern edition that preserves the original content and artwork, making it accessible to a new audience.
"This story is one of the strangest and most fantastic religious movements to be found in the whole range of what may be described as the erratic "goings on" of the ecclesiastical underworld." -ADAPTED from the INTRODUCTION. The independent Catholic movement has branches all over the world. It constitutes one of the most interesting and diverse movements in Christian history, one worthy of greater visibility and academic attention. Here is the classic history of the various successions claimed by most independent jurisdictions. This is the most sought-after book in the movement's history, now back in print after forty years from the Apocryphile Press.