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The provenance of this article is somewhere between a critical review of two less-well-known Catholic authors (and their respective memoirs), and a reflective commentary on the same. As the head-title has it, the unifying and necessitating chosen reading direction pits the two Catholic memoirs as contrasting romantic and classical approaches to self-representation and self-discovery; and this, of course, within the purview of their Christian itineraries. In short, I read both memoirs as sacramental journeys as well as empirical journeys. While Belloc's work invokes personality and animation across both his recounted journey and his reflective/pictorial representation of such, Knox evinces in turn a classical asceticism wary of temperamental vagaries and influences, both substantively and formally or stylistically. Precisely because both authors are less well-known, I have sampled their respective works generously, reflecting, again, the dual purview of the article: not only an interested commentary but also an advertent critical review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]