![]() ![]() ![]() In 1909 he converted to Catholicism and shortly thereafter he began presenting himself as a Catholic priest and styling himself the " Reverend Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers", even though he was never a member of any Catholic order or diocese. Summers also joined the growing ranks of English men of letters interested in medievalism, Catholicism, and the occult. Summers' first book, Antinous and Other Poems, published in 1907, was dedicated to the subject of pederasty. He never proceeded to higher orders, however, probably because of rumours of his interest in Satanism and accusations of sexual impropriety with young boys, for which he was tried and acquitted. Summers was ordained as deacon in 1908 and worked as a curate in Bath and Bitton, in Greater Bristol. He then continued his religious training at Lichfield Theological College. ![]() In 1905 he received a fourth-class Bachelor of Arts degree. Summers was educated at Clifton College before studying theology at Trinity College, Oxford with the intention of becoming a priest in the Church of England. Montague Summers was the youngest of the seven children of Augustus William Summers, a rich banker and justice of the peace in Clifton, Bristol. ![]()
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