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 On a June even-ing in 1901 the 31-year-old poet, essayist, historian and sailor, Hilaire Belloc, bought a cigar, leaned on a low wall and settled his gaze on a village church.He had reached Undervelier in the Swiss Alps. He was on the path to Rome. I am sure he thought of the church in La Celle St Cloud, the place of his birth. For the faith was beckoning him home, away from that “banquet of the intellect” which, at Oxford, had all but frozen his soul. Heartbreak and disappointment were round the corner. His adored wife Elodie would shortly die. He would lose a son in each world war. The &