Famous Religious Conversions Joyce Kilmer

About the famous religious convert Joyce Kilmer what religion she converted from and to and why.

RENOWNED RELIGIOUS CONVERTS

JOYCE KILMER, U.S., 1886-1918.

Poet, he wrote "Trees."

From: Anglicanism.

To: Roman Catholicism.

Why: Kilmer was moved to religious fervor after his daughter contracted infantile paralysis. Kilmer's attraction to Roman Catholicism was part of his penchant for things Irish. He often referred to himself as being half-Irish, though his ancestry was English, German, and Scottish.