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* CulturallyReligious: Elgar was brought up a Catholic, was sympathetic to the Catholics suffering prejudice in Protestant Britain, and composed a number of religious choral works, like ''The Dream of Gerontius'', ''The Kingdom'', and ''The Apostles''. However, he was not particularly devout and expressed ambivalence towards the Catholic faith, especially towards the end of his life. He only continued to go to Mass because his wife Alice, a devout Catholic convert from Anglicanism, encouraged him to or because he admired a particular priest in a parish. He also denied that there is an afterlife, despite his most famous oratorio ''The Dream of Gerontius'' being about life after death.

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* CulturallyReligious: Elgar was brought up a Catholic, was sympathetic to the Catholics suffering prejudice in Protestant Britain, and composed a number of religious choral works, like ''The Dream of Gerontius'', ''The Kingdom'', and ''The Apostles''. However, he was not particularly devout and expressed ambivalence towards the Catholic faith, especially towards the end of his life. He only continued to go to Mass because his wife Alice, a devout Catholic convert from Anglicanism, encouraged him to or because he admired a particular priest in a parish. He There is also the irony that he denied that there is an afterlife, despite his most famous oratorio and yet ''The Dream of Gerontius'' being is about life after death.

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