English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Bl. Miles Gerard, Roman Catholic Martyr of England with Blessed Francis Dickinson.  arrested when the ship that he and Francis were using wrecked at Kent. They were arrested and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Rochester. Feastday April. 30

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Newman and Converts and the Church : Matt Swaim--who also works for the Coming Home Network --and I will talk about Blessed John Henry Newman and conversion on the Son Rise Mo...

Bl. Robert Anderton, and Bl. William Marsden Roman Catholic Priests and English Martyrs. Summoned to London, where they were examined upon the celebrated "bloody question", whether they would fight against the Pope, even if the quarrel were for purely religious causes. Though they acknowledged Elizabeth as their lawful queen in all temporal matters, they would not consent to the required test. The sentence was then confirmed, and a proclamation was published, explaining their guilt. They were taken back and executed near the place where they had been cast ashore, being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday April 25

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Wedding at Notre Dame de Paris : On April 24, 1558, Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scotland, married Francois (or Francis), the Dauphin of France in the Cathedral of Notre...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Also in the Tower in April 1534: Doctor Nicholas W... : After remembering the 485th anniversary of the beginning of St. Thomas More's imprisonment in the Tower of London last week, I noted t...

Saint Anselm of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Priest, Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor of The Church. Feastday April 21

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Bl. John Finch, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr. He was a yeoman farmer of Eccleston, Lancashire, who returned to the Church. He harbored priests and acted as a clerk and catechist. John was arrested and tried with Blessed James Bell. They were executed at Lancaster. Feastday April 20

Bl. Robert Watkinson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Born at Hemingborough, Yorkshire, he left England and studied at Douai, France, and then Rome in preparation for his ordination in 1602 in Arras, France. Sent home to work for the reconversion of England, he was arrested almost immediately and executed at Tyburn. Robert was hanged, drawn, and quartered on April 20, with Blessed Francis Page. Feastday April 20

St. Francis Page, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Francis was a member of an English Protestant family of Harrow-on-the-Hill, in England. Reconciled to the Catholic faith, he was ordained in 1600 and sent from Douai, France, to England. He was arrested there two years later. While in prison, Francis entered the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. He was martyred at Tyburn, England, Feastday April 20

St. Alphege of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. When in 1011 Canterbury was overrun by Danish invaders, who began to slaughter the townspeople, the archbishop presented himself to the Danes, declaring, “Spare those poor innocent victims. Turn your fury rather against me.” Alphege was thereupon consigned to a dungeon. Afterward, an epidemic among the Danes frightened them into releasing him. Newly freed, Alphege obtained the healing of many victims of the epidemic by his prayers and by distributing to them blessed bread. Despite this, the Danes later stoned and axed him to death in Greenwich. But eleven years later, it was to be a Danish king, Canute, who would honorably transfer Alphege’s body to Canterbury. Feastday April 19

Bl. James Duckett, Roman Catholic Layman and English Martyr.  Arrested for his faith, he was imprisoned for nine years before his execution at Tyburn. Feastday April19

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Bl. Marie-Anne Blondin, Canadian Nun founder of a religious congregation "for the education of poor country children, both girls and boys in the same schools". Feastday April18

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: April 17, 1534: St. Thomas More in the Tower : On April 13, 1534, Thomas More was presented with the Act of Succession and the oath it required at Lambeth Palace in the presence of thre...

St. Stephen Harding, O.Cist. Roman Catholic English monk and abbot, who was one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. Feastday April 17

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed John Henry Newman and the Passion : This morning, Anna Mitchell and I will discuss one of Blessed John Henry Newman's great sermons for Good Friday, " The Crucifixi...

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Bl. John Lockwood, Roman Catholic English Martyr, sometimes called John Lascelles. He was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, and went to Rome to study for the priesthood as a mature man. He was ordained in 1597 returned to England the following year. He was arrested and banished in 1610 but returned to work until his arrest in 1642. At the age of eighty-one, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York with Blessed John Catherick. Feastday April 13

Monks and martyrs of Chertsey in Surrey - now on the outskirts of London. They died when their monastery was ransacked by invading Danes in 870. Many other members of the community are said to have perished with them. Their memory has been kept alive in several chronicles, including that of William of Malmesbury. Richard Stanton wrote in his Menology in 1887: 'At Chertsey in Surrey, the commemoration of St Beocca, Abbot; St Ethor, Priest and Monk, together with eighty or ninety religious men of the same community, who were burnt in their monastery, in hatred of the Christian faith, by the pagan Danes, in their cruel ravages, about the year of Christ 870. 'Also at Barking in Essex, the precious memory of the religious women of the Abbey founded by St Erkonwald and St Ethelburga, all of whom were put to death by the pagans for the same holy cause, and whose names, not known on earth, are recorded in the Book of Life. The day of the passion of these holy martyrs has not been pre...

Martyrs of Croyland Roman Catholic Benedictine monks who were slain by the Danes during an invasion of Croyland Abbey, England, and the surrounding area. The abbot was Theodore. Others suffering included Askega, the prior; Swethin, the subprior; and Elfgete, Savinus, Egdred, Agamund, Grimkeld, and Ulrick. Feastday April 9

Bl. Alexander Rawlins, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Missionary, and companion in death with Henry Walpole. Alexander was born in Worcestershire, England, where he was jailed twice for his fervent Catholicism. In 1589 he went to the English seminary in Reims and was ordained there in 1590. Returning to England the following year, Alexander was arrested. He was condemned to death and on April 7, 1595, and along with Henry Walpole was hanged, drawn, and quartered in York, England. Feastday April 7

St. Henry Walpole, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered in York, England. Feastday Apr.7

Bl. Edward Oldcorne, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was then condemned to death at Worcester for alleged complicity in the Gunpowder Plot . Feastday Apr.7

St. Richard of Chichester , Roman Catholic Bishop of Chichester. In Chichester Cathedral a shrine dedicated to Richard had become a richly decorated centre of pilgrimage. In 1538, during the reign of Henry VIII, the shrine was plundered and destroyed by order of Thomas Cromwell.St Richard of Chichester is patron saint of Sussex in southern England; since 2007, his translated saint's day of 16 June has been celebrated as Sussex Day. Feastday April 3

St. Ebba the Younger, Roman Catholic Nun. Abbess of Coldingham, England, on the Scottish border, called “the Younger.” She and her nuns were martyred by Danes in an invasion. She mutilated her face to discourage rape by the invading Danes. The raiders set fire to Coldingham, killing all of the nuns. Feastday April 2

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sweeney on St. Robert Southwell, Poet : I'm reading this book because of another book I've received to review; the author of that other book referred to the late Anne Swe...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: RIP : On April 2, 1502, Arthur Tudor, the Prince of Wales, died at Ludlow Castle in Wales. He and his bride, Katherine of Aragon, the Princess o...