Ernest Gilliat-Smith

Ernest Gilliat-Smith was an Englishman who became a Catholic in 1879 and spent the rest of his life writing about the places and saints he loved. He lived for some years in Bruges and, from 1913, in Rome.

For J. M. Dent he wrote The Story of Bruges, The Story of Brussels and Saint Clare of Assisi: Her Life and Legislation, and he contributed to The Tablet, the Dublin Review and the old Catholic Encyclopedia. Saint Anthony of Padua according to His Contemporaries (1926) was his last book.