The Catholic heritage of Anglo-Americans.

[Annuit Coeptis]

This is specifically intended to draw attention to a forgotten historical legacy that modern Anglo-Americans such as myself are heirs to: that of the Catholicity of England from the earliest times (i.e. the Roman Empire), the Celtic Christians, the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons themselves and the eventual unification of the Anglo-Saxons under the House of Wessex, the Norman Conquest and the House of Plantagenet (and the resulting wars with France), and so on down to the schism of King Henry VIII- which had less to do with the Church and more to do with the monarch's philandering.

I'll keep the OP brief, starting with one of the Seventy Disciples that Jesus sent out to preach the good news.

Legendarily it was Aristobulus who first preached Christianity in Britain. He is considered a saint in Eastern Orthodoxy but not in Catholicism.

Aristobulus of Britannia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tradition begins with Aristobulus preaching the good news in Britain. A good starting date might be AD 43, roughly a decade after the death and resurrection of Christ. It was at this time that the Romans, under Claudius, began the conquest and occupation of Britain.

Assuming this early date for the Faith's arrival in Britain (mid-1st century) and then arriving at the date of the schism that created Anglicanism (1520s/1530s) means that there's roughly fifteen centuries of Catholicism in the family tree of people of English descent.