To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best “There is nothing worth living for but Christian Architecture and a boat.” So wrote the architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52). He was referring to the architecture of the Middle Ages and by “boat” he meant his cliff-top life at Ramsgate where he built his house and church, and where as lugger captain he watched the coast. He had become a Catholic in 1835, and made himself a controversialist through journalism and publication. By 1843 he had designed more than 24 churches, including cathedrals at Southwark, Birmingham and Killarney. St Giles (1840-46) at Cheadle in