Who and When |
Raised |
|
Became |
Buffalo Bill, 1917, while nearing death |
Methodist |
⤑ |
Roman Catholic |
T.S. Eliot, 1927, while experiencing turmoil in his relationship with wife Vivien Haigh-Wood |
Unitarian |
⤑ |
Anglo-Catholic |
Chiang Kai-Shek, 1930, after prayer in battle was answered with snowstorm that hindered enemy forces |
Buddhist |
⤑ |
Methodist |
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, second Sunday after becoming thirty-fourth president of the United States |
Mennonite |
⤑ |
Presbyterian |
Elizabeth Taylor, 1959, two years after marrying a grandson of a Polish rabbi |
Christian Scientist |
⤑ |
Jewish |
Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), 1977, after a spiritual search prompted in part by a near-drowning experience |
Christian |
⤑ |
Muslim |