English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

St Bathildis | ICN : Queen, wife, mother and nun. This saint was a English woman whose life went from rags to riches. As a young girl, she was captured by pirates and sold as a slave to Erchinoald, who was in charge of the palace of the Frankish King, Clovis II.Bathildis was so beautiful and int...

St Gildas | ICN : Abbot. Born around 500AD, near the Clyde, ancient chronicles describe how St Gildas became a monk after his wife died. He became a notable figure in Welsh monastic life. Many Irish monks came to visit him and he travelled around Ireland and wrote letters to distant monasteries.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: England and Britain and English, Etc. : I thought this overview of English history from the Anglo-Saxons to the Empire and beyond was forthright in noting the close relationshi...

Bl. William Ireland, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was executed at Tyburn for supposed complicity in the Popish Plot. Bl. John Grove, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr, He was executed at Tyburn for supposed complicity in the Popish Plot. Feastday Jan 24

London: Papal Nuncio blesses Homeless Jesus | ICN : The Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, Archbishop Edward Adams, blessed the life-size bronze statue Homeless Jesus at the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Farm Street in Mayfair on Tuesday after a Solemn Sung Mass.The Concelebrants included Bishop Nicholas Hudson, ...

Venerable Mary Ward | ICN : Today marks the anniversary of the birth of of Mary Ward, whose cause for Beatification is underway at the Vatican. She was born in 1585, into a family of Yorkshire recusants, outlaw Catholics refusing to conform to the state religion. Condemned to death in London for her work among und...

Bl. William Patenson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on January 21, 1642. Feastday January 22

London: memorial to Jesuit Martyrs unveiled at St Giles-in-the-Fields | ICN : The unveiling of a memorial for seven Jesuit martyrs at St Giles-in-the-Fields marked a true ecumenical moment. On Sunday 20th January, friends and representatives of the Catholic community and of the wider church gathered together with members of the Anglican community at the West End ...

Thomas Reynolds, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, Bl. Edward Stransham, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. St. Alban Bartholomew Roe, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. They were all hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on January 21, 1642.

St Wulfstan | ICN : Benedictine monk and bishop of Worcester. St Wulfstan was born of Anglo Saxon parents in 1008 at Itchington in Warwickshire. Educated at the abbeys of Evesham and Peterborough, he excelled in piety and sport.After he was ordained priest he was offered a richly endowed church...

St Ailred of Rievaulx | ICN : Abbot and writer. St Ailred was the son of a priest, born in Hexham in 1110. After being educated at Durham he joined the household of David I, king of Scotland as a steward. In 1134 he joined the newly-founded abbey at Rievaulx. In spite of delicate health, he followed the austere Cist...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Newman's Life: Part One : My discussions with Anna Mitchell and Matt Swaim on the Son Rise Morning Show begin this morning a little after 7:45 a.m. Eastern time. W...

St Wulsin of Sherbourne | ICN : Abbot and bishop. Born in London towards the end of the first millennium, St Wulsin was made the first abbot of Westminster Abbey by St Dunstan, after it was restored around 980. In 992 he was also made bishop of Sherbourne in Dorset. He is said to have rebuilt the church there and int...

Bl. Edward Waterson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was hanged, drawn and quartered, Feastday January 7 

St. Peter of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Monk, from Rome’s Benedictine abbey of Saint Andrew who accompanied Saint Augustine of Canterbury on his missionary journey to England in 597. Feastday January 6

St Andre Bessette | ICN : Canadian laybrother. Alfred Bessette was born on August 9, 1845, near Montreal in Quebec province, Canada, the eighth of twelve children. When Alfred was nine, his father, a wood cutter, died in a work accident. Three years later, his mother died of TB. The children were split up and pl...

St John Neumann and St Charles of Mount Argus | ICN : American bishop. John Neumann was born in 1811 in what is now the Czech Republic. After studying in Prague, he came to New York at 25 and was ordained a priest. He did missionary work in New York until he was 29, when he joined the Redemptorists and became its first member to profess vo...