The official Vatican believes that William Shakespeare was undoubtedly a Catholic

The official newspaper of the Vatican L'Osservatore Romano announced that William Shakespeare's plays clearly confirm that their author was undoubtedly a Catholic.

L'Osservatore Romano discusses on its pages the new film "Anonymus" (Anonymous), which refers to the popular theory, according to which Shakespeare's work was actually written by the Count of Oxford de Vera. An article, which provides many quotes from Shakespeare's plays, designed to confirm his Catholic beliefs, ends in a categorical conclusion: "If his personality may be discussed, then not his faith."

L'Osservatore Romano notes that, due to the brutal persecution of Catholics in England in the late XVI - early XVII century, Shakespeare was forced to hide his true religious views. Although the historical William Shakespeare was properly registered in the Anglican parish, the Vatican newspaper believes that this fact does not yet indicate a genuine worldview of the famous playwright, the week notes.

In the Vatican newspaper, it is noted that even the current head of the Anglican community, Archbishop of Kenterbury, Dr. Rowen Williams, agrees that the author of the plays was probably a Catholic.

However, evidence of the great author belonged to Catholicism previously. So, in 2009, the vice-director of the Honorable English College (British Catholic Seminary in Rome), Priest Andrew Hidon, said that he had historical evidence not only of the playwright’s belonging to the Catholic Church, but also evidence that Shakespeare was in Rome .

We are talking about three records in the guest book of the English College, signed by the strange names "Arthurus Stratfordus Wigomniensis" (1585), "Gulielmus Clerkue Stratfordiensis" (1589) and "SHFORDUS CESTRIENSIS" (1587). According to Hidon, these signatures should be understood as the encrypted name of Shakespeare: “(the king’s compatriot) Arthur from Stratford (in Diocesus) Wuster,“ William, a Service from Stratford ”and“ Expert from Strat) Ford (in the Diockel) of Chester ”. All three notes are on Shakespeare's “lost years” - a period of which scientist is not aware of. Shakespeare left his native Stratford in 1585, and in London appeared only in 1592.

Andrew Hidon is convinced that Shakespeare was a secret Catholic and, like many of his co -religionists, was hiding in Rome from the persecution of the first years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The biography of Shakespeare Hildegard Hammershmidt -Khumel in the recently published book agrees with the theory that the great playwright was a Catholic and that "his religion is the key to understanding his work." There is evidence that the Catholics were the parents of William, his teacher and his patron saint Count Southampton, who covered with the persecution of Catholic priests.

Supporters of this theory consider to be proof of the rightness of Shakespeare’s play, which shows that the author is familiar with the customs and religious views of Catholics. Of the 37 plays of Shakespeare, the action of five takes place in different cities of Italy, five more - entirely or partially in Rome and three more in Sicily.

Recall that a professor of literature of Florida University Joseph Pierce came to the conclusion about the belonging of the great playwright to Catholicism. After a thorough study of the little -known facts of Shakespeare's biography, the scientist leaned to the conviction that the author of Hamlet was a Catholic, but for security reasons hid his faith.

According to the pier, the Catholic faith of the English playwright prompts researchers to look at some of his works differently. “If Shakespeare was a Catholic, then by virtue of this fact he could not be an“ atheist ”or“ postmodern nihilist ”, as some modern researchers portray it,” said the professor of Florida University.