The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom is a charity, founded in 1877, which supports projects and initiatives in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, through its grant programme and network of members.
[1][2] In 1886, the Catholic priest, The Reverend Fr Philip Fletcher (1848–1928) established a Union of Intercession for the Conversion of England.
Adelaide Lister (eldest daughter of 2nd Lord Ribblesdale) and a descendant of the Jacobite rebel, William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan.
It was dedicated to Our Lady, St Gregory and the English Martyrs and took as its prayer as that of the Blessed Henry Heath on the scaffold at Tyburn in 1643: "Jesu convert England, have mercy on this country".
[22] It also arranged pilgrimages in the British Isles, such as to Glastonbury,[23] and sites at Canterbury, Chelsea, Hastings, Holywell, Padley, King's Lynn, Westminster, Willesden, York, and Walsingham.