By 1660, the Hollands had returned to England and Sir John began serving on the new Council of State, in order to bring about the restoration of the monarchy.
To the displeasure of her father, Holland's attraction to Catholicism became stronger during this time and she began corrosponding in secret with Mary Bedingfield, the prioress at the English Augustinian convent in Bruges , in 1661.
[3] Bedingfield offered Holland help to leave England and, in 1662, she wrote a letter each to her mother and father, left them on a table in her room and crept out of their home in London in the early morning.
Less than two weeks later she completed her auto-biography,"'How I came to change my religion" ,which she dedicated to her fellow nuns and marked her conversion to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism.
Over two hundred years later a fellow Nazareth nun, Catherine Sidney Durrant, published How I came to change my religion[2] within her book Link Between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs.