English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Bl. John Slade - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Slade, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr. John denied King Henry Viii’s supremacy in religious matters and was arrested and tried with Blessed John Bodey. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester. Feastday: October 30

Martyrs of Douai - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Douai, Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs in England. A group of 160 priests trained at the English College of Douai, in France. They were martyred in England and Wales during the century following the foundation of the famed college by Cardinal William Allen in 1568. All perished at the hands of English authorities while laboring to reconvert the island. Feastday Oct.29

St. Cuthbert Mayne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Before being brought to the place of execution, Mayne was offered his life in return for a renunciation of his religion and an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the queen as head of the church. Declining both offers, he kissed a copy of the Bible, declaring that, "the queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be, the head of the church of England". Feastday Oct.29

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Geoffrey Pole, in the Tower : According to the Tudor Society Blog, on October 26 in 1538, "Geoffrey Pole, brother of Cardinal Reginald Pole and son of Margaret P...

25th October - The Welsh Martyrs - Independent Catholic News : The Welsh Martyrs commemorated today are: are the priests Philip Evans and John Lloyd, John Jones, David Lewis, John Roberts, and the teacher Richard Gwyn. Wales also continues to keep 4 May as a separate feast for the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales.

St. John Houghton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Houghton, Roman Catholic Carthusian Monk and Protomartyr of the English Reformation. He refused to swear to the Oath of Supremacy, the first man to make this refusal. Dragged through the streets, he was executed at Tyburn with four companions by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Parts of his remains were put on display in assorted spots throughout London. Feastday Oct.25

Bl. Thomas Thwing - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Thwing, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was condemned and hanged, drawn, and quartered at York. Feastday Oct.23

Newly decorated chapel at Westminster Cathedral honours English martyrs - Independent Catholic News : A new decorative scheme commemorating forty English Catholic martyrs has recently been completed in the Chapel of St George and the English Martyrs in Westminster Cathedral. The chapel will be dedicated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols on 28 October. The chapel contains the cathedral's war memorial and its completion marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. The new design by Tom Phillips CBE RA links this event with another chapter in the nation's suffering, that of the English martyrs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: There's Just Something about Those Thwings : St. John of Bridlington or St. John Thwing or Thweng, is a Yorkshire saint of the fourteenth century and an ancestor of two recusant era ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Philip Howard and the North American Jesuit Ma... : Just a reminder that today is the anniversary of St. Philip Howard's death in the Tower of London in 1595. From my blog post at the Na...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Second Spring and the "Catholic Spring" : From Crisis Magazine and the inimitable Father George Rutler, this comparison between a great, holy Newman and 21st-century Newman: On ...

St. Richard Gwyn - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Richard Gwyn, Roman Catholic Layman and English Martyr. He Converted from Protestantism, he returned to Wales in 1562, married, had six children, and opened a school. Arrested in 1579, he spent four years in prison before his execution by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Wrexham on October 15, for being a Catholic. Feastday Oct 17

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Richard Gwyn, Welsh Schoolmaster and Martyr : Today, in Wales, The Latin Mass Society is honoring St. Richard Gwyn with a Missa Cantata and veneration of relics. In 2011, The ...

13th October - Saint Edward the Confessor - Independent Catholic News : King of England. Born in 1003, Edward was the son of Ethelred the Unready and his Norman wife Emma. He was educated at Ely and then in exile in Normandy, while two Scandinavian kings claimed the English throne in succession. In 1042 he became king. In 1045 he married Edith, daughter of the powerful Earl Godwin. Some historians describe him as a weak ruler who paved the way for the Norman Conquest. Others praise his wisdom

12th October - Saint Wilfrid - Independent Catholic News : Bishop. St Wilfrid was born in Northumbria in 633, the son of a noble family. He was educated at Lindisfarne, and later studied at Canterbury and then Rome. He returned to become Abbot of Ripon and introduced the Rule of St Benedict and the Western, or Roman, method of calculating Easter. This had been introduced by Kentish missionaries like Paulinus but rejected by monks of Lindisfarne who stuck to the old Celtic system. At the Synod of

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: William Chillingworth and Father John Fisher, SJ : William Chillingworth was born just six months before Elizabeth I died, on October 12, 1602. He would have an eventful life , including a ...

10th October - Saint Paulinus of York - Independent Catholic News : Monk and first bishop of York. Paulinus was one of the second group of monks sent to England by Pope Gregory the Great in 601. King Edwin of Northumbria, had invited the missionaries because he wanted to become a Christian and marry Ethelburga, the Christian sister of Edbald, King of Kent. Paulinus hoped the Northumbrian people would follow their king's example. After Edwin was baptised, in a wooden church at York,

Bl. Robert Sutton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Sutton, Roman Catholic English Martyr. He was an Anglican minister before his conversion to Catholicism. In 1575, he converted and went to Douai, France. He returned to England and was arrested in London and hanged at Clerkenwell. Feastday Oct.5

Bl. William Hartley - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Hartley, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was an Anglican minister before his conversion to Catholicism. Going to Reims, France, he received ordination in 1580 and went back to the English mission to aid St. Edmund Campion. William was hanged at Shoreditch. Feastday Oct. 5

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Francis of Assisi and the English Franciscans:... : On this feast of St. Francis of Assisi, who is probably one of the most popular saints inside and outside of the Catholic Church, some bac...

St. Thomas of Hereford - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thomas of Hereford, Roman Catholic Priest and Bishop, a stern opponent of simony and all forms of secular encroachment upon his episcopal rights. Feastday Oct 2

Bl. Robert Wilcox - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Wilcox, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Robert was arrested in Marshsea. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered with Blessed Robert Widmerpool at Canterbury. Feastday Oct.1

Bl. John Robinson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Robinson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ordained in 1585, John went back to England and was executed at Ipswich. Feastday Oct.1

Bl. Robert Widmerpool - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Widmerpool. Roman Catholic English Martyr. He was arrested for giving aid to a Catholic priest. Robert was executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury with Blessed Robert Wilcox. Feastday Oct 1

Bl. Edward James - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward James, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Returning as a missionary to England, he was arrested and martyred at Chichester. Feastday Oct.1

St. Ralph Crockett - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Ralph Crockett, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ralph was martyred at Chichester by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday Oct.1