September 29, 1901–October 12, 1954

Caryll Houselander was an English Roman Catholic artist, author, poet, and mystic.

A convert at age six, Houselander left the Church as a teenager, return­ing as a young adult and becoming a fixture in twentieth-century Catholicism.

Her relatively brief life was dedicated caring for the poor and desolate, materially as well as intellectually and spiritually.

Her fresh, insightful writings made her a bright fixture in the twentieth-century Church; of her writing talent, Monsignor Ronald Knox once said: “In all she wrote, there was a candour as of childhood: she seemed to see everything for the first time, and the driest or doctrinal considerations shone out like a restored picture when she had finished with it.”