sentences:  With the arrival of the papal nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, in Ireland on 21 October 1645 Lord Dillon's Protestant religion caused him problems.He decided to convert back to Catholicism and on 6 December 1646 Lord Dillon was received back into the Roman Catholic Church by the Nuncio at St Mary's Church, Kilkenny.He had left Athlone under the command of Captain MacGawly, who betrayed him and handed the town over to Owen Roe O'Neill.