November 18, 1871–October 19, 1914

Robert Hugh Benson the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was a convert to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1904.

A dynamic preacher and author, Benson wrote dozens of novels as well as numerous short stories, plays, essays, and spiritual texts.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen called Benson’s Lord of the World one of “the three great apocalyptic pieces of literature dealing with the advent of the satanic,” along with Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamozov, and Soloviev’s Three Conversations on War, and Monsignor Ronald Knox credited his The Light Invisible with aiding in his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church.