John Gerard, S.J., was a Jesuit missionary priest in Elizabethan England when the Catholic Church was under heavy persecution by the government. The footnotes provided by the translator prove the absolute facts of his account in this book, which is corroborated even by the files of the Elizabethan secret police.
In my early years in the Society of Jesus, I recall that this book
was read at my table... On first listening to it, the book also
struck me as describing a persecution of Catholics that could not
happen here. One is no longer quite so sure. It may, be a very
up-to-date book in its own way.
-James V. Schall, S.J., from the Foreword
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