Spectata Fides §5

⁵ In your country of Great Britain We know that, besides yourselves, very manyof your nation are not a little anxious about religious education. They do notin all things agree with Us; nevertheless they see how important, for the sakeboth of society and of men individually, is the preservation of that Christianwisdom which your forefathers received through St. Augustine, from OurPredecessor, Gregory the Great: which wisdom the violent tempests that came afterwards have not entirely scattered. There are, as We know, at this day, many of an excellent disposition of mind, who are diligently striving to retain what they can of the ancient faith, and who bring forth many and great fruits of charity. As often as We think of this, so often are we deeply moved, for We love with a paternal charity that island which was not undeservedly called the Mother of Saints; and We see, in the disposition of mind of which We have spoken, the greatest hope and, as it were, a pledge of the welfare and prosperity of the British people.