When 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' converted to the Catholic faith

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 Sir Alec Guinness is one of the most recognizable actors of the 20th century. While he appeared in lots of films over the years and won many awards, he is best known as having played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.

What many people don’t know about him, though, is that at the age of 42 he converted to Catholicism – in part because of a miracle.

Guinness was born in 1914 in London to a broken family. He never knew his father and grew up in poverty. Though he was confirmed in the Anglican faith at 16, he was unsure of what he really believed about religion. Over the next few years he bounced around Presbyterianism, atheism, Marxism, Buddhism, and even attended a few Quaker meetings. Like a good Englishman of the early 20th century, though, he had no interest in Catholicism.

LINK: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/the-miracle-that-led-obi-wan-kenobi-to-convert-to-catholicism-61901

Guinness remained a faithful Catholic the rest of his life until he died in 2000.

May the force me with him in the afterlife

Edited May 6, 2018 by little2add

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When 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' converted to the Catholic faith

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