Donald Attwater

Donald Attwater (24 December 1892 – 30 January 1977) was a British Catholic author, editor and translator, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Notre Dame.

[1] He served in the Sinai and Palestine campaign during the First World War, developing an interest in Eastern Christianity while in the Middle East.

Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s he was a frequent contributor to the Catholic press in both Britain and America, and a prolific author of books on Christian themes.

In 1936, he was one of the founders of the Catholic peace movement Pax, which opposed the invasion of Abyssinia by Fascist Italy.

[3] Attwater was married to Rachel Attwater of South Wales, a fellow historian and published author on Catholic saints in the Orient.