English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: 850 Years Ago Tonight: Murder in the Cathedral : Before COVID struck, there were great plans to celebrate this 850th anniversary of the martyrdom, or some might say, assassination, of the A...

Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, Parish Priest at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, Mayfair, central London, gave this homily on Christmas Day. First of all on behalf of the Jesuit Community who have care of this church a very warm welcome to you - wherever you are joining us from, be it here in the church or at home here in London or elsewhere in our country or overseas - and may we wish you a happy Christmas. Over these last few days it's been interesting being offered Christmas greetings. I've been noticing a certain reservation in saying 'happy Christmas' - greetings, to me at least, have been prefaced by "I know it's far from happy this year" or slightly downgrading the greeting to 'a blessed Christmas' or 'a peaceful Christmas'. Midnight/ Christmas Day Mass is usually so uplifting as our church is full and we welcome people who would not normally come to church, indeed welcome people back to church. Over the years here

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: First Book on 2021 Wish List : I'm going to ask Warren at Eighth Day Books to order this for me as soon as it's available next year (scheduled for release on Janu...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Announcement: The North American Friends of the Ve... : I've been asked to help in whatever way I can in a new project with the English Martyrs of the Recusant era, specifically those who atte...

English Historical Fiction Authors: Hangings and Gibbeting : By Donna Scott Death by hanging was used as a form of capital punishment in England as early as the fifth century. Other methods of executio...

A Law unto Yourself By Br. Simon Teller, O.P. on December 7, 2020 “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” Ralph Waldo Emerson makes this bold—but perhaps diabolical—assertion in his essay, “Self-Reliance.” For Emerson, you cannot let your actions be shaped by someone else’s idea of the truth. You cannot submit yourself to external standards, rules, and traditions. For life only has meaning when it is lived from within, according to one’s own personal insights and convictions. The conclusion: the only ones who are truly alive are the nonconformists. An old churchman once challenged Emerson on this point: “How do you know that your own impulses are not from heaven above, but from below?” Emerson responded: “They do not seem to be to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.” Emerson’s words are, ironically, perhaps truer than his rhetoric suggests. He did not invent the idea of self-re

Who Were the Puritans? - Crisis Magazine : The Pilgrims first sighted land off Cape Cod on November 9, 1620, after spending sixty-five days at sea. They rejoiced, singing Psalm 100, a traditional song of thanksgiving. But as William Bradford recorded in Of Plymouth Plantation, it was winter when, “all things stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face.” “They had no friends to welcome them, …

Myles Standish, the Catholic Pilgrim - Crisis Magazine : Amid an otherwise estimable analysis of the Pilgrims’ early years and legacy, Christopher Caldwell makes a common mistake in the Claremont Review of Books, describing Myles Standish not just as “brave, erudite, underhanded, and so diminutive that he was known (though not to his face) as Captain Shrimp”—all true—but as “a secular mercenary” to boot. …

In the footsteps of the English martyrs In spite of unprecedented restrictions, the Venerable English College remembered the 44 English martyrs in a celebration on Tuesday, 1 December, with the traditional singing of the Te Deum sung in the exact same spot as it was by their forebears whenever one of their brothers was martyred. By Joachim Teigen They have been referred to as “God’s secret agents”. Martyred in the persecutions of Catholics in post-reformation England and Wales, the 44 martyrs of the Venerable English College in Rome are remembered by their modern-day successors once a year, on 1 December, a day known as “Martyrs’ Day”. The day marks the death of the College’s first martyr, St. Ralph Sherwin. Alongside him, 43 other saints, blesseds and venerables of the English seminary are remembered. The striking number of martyrs whose priestly formation took place at this College seminary has earned the institution its name of “Venerable”. On Tuesday, amidst Covid-19 restricti

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Vespers at the Venerable English College in Rome : I received some exciting news from the Venerable English College in Rome last week: This Tuesday [Today!] marks a very important day in the...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Newman on Memories and Gratitude : Just a reminder that Anna Mitchell and I will discuss " Remembrance of Past Mercies ", a Parochial and Plain Sermon by Saint John ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Newman on Thankfulness for Past Mercies : We decided to have another discussion about thankfulness and gratitude on the Son Rise Morning Show on Monday, November 23 (at about 6:45 a...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Tuesday, November 17: Saints and Sinners : Quite a remarkable day: Queen Mary I and Reginald Cardinal Pole died today in 1558 , ending the restoration of Catholicism in England for 29...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Chesterton, Thanksgiving, and Aquinas : Just a reminder that Matt Swaim and I will discuss G.K. Chesterton and Gratitude on the Son Rise Morning Show at 6:45 a.m. Central/7:45 a....

Despite having its physical headquarters in Vatican City, the Church of Rome claims that its ‘spiritual authority’ derives from a chair, called the ‘cathedra,’ which is in nearby Rome. St. John Lateran dates back to Rome’s emperor Constantine, who donated the building to the Bishop of Rome in the 4th century (allegedly because he was healed of leprosy by Bishop of Rome Miltiades). It claims the title of the “mother church of the world”. It is sometimes referred to as the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, as it ‘ranks’ above all other Roman Catholic basilicas and cathedrals. It was officially ‘consecrated’ on November 9, 324. A Latin inscription in the Church reads: “omnium ecclesiarum Urbis et Orbis mater et caput.” Translated, this means, “The mother and head of all churches of the city and of the world.” In a sense, St. John Lateran is the parish church of all Catholics, because it is the pope’s cathedral. This church is the spiritual home of the people who are the

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Chesterton on Gratitude During a Pandemic : “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: The Last Three Canonized Martyrs Amo... : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central today to conclude our series on t...

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Great Plague of 1665 Through the Eyes of Samue... : By Maren Halvorsen The Great Plague of 1665, which struck London during the spring and summer before fading away as winter set in, is perhap...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. John Henry Newman's "Re-Imagining" of Purgatory : On Monday, October 26, I watched Professor Kenneth Parker's Journey Home episode on EWTN. He is currently the Ryan Endowed Chair for Ne...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Last of the 40: Three Popish Plot Martyrs : On All Souls Day, Monday, November 2, Matt Swaim and I will conclude our Son Rise Morning Show series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Martyrs of Douai : In the Diocese of Westminster, England, today is the feast of the Douai Martyrs--that is, martyrs who studied at the English College/seminar...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. John Henry Newman in Rome, 1846-1847 : St. John Henry Newman's feast day is on October 9, the anniversary of his reception in to the Catholic Church by Blessed Dominic Barberi...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saints Philip Evans, SJ and John Lloyd : Just a reminder that I'll be on the   Son Rise Morning Show   at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central today to continue our series ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Today: The 40 at 50 : Today is the 50th anniversary of the canonization of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales in Rome by Pope Paul VI. The Bishop of Plymouth, Ma...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Two Popish Plot Martyrs: Saint Philip Eva... : With the penultimate episode of our survey of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales, Anna Mitchell of the Son Rise Morning Show and I will mov...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: One of Elizabeth I's Diplomats, Sir William Waad, RIP : Sir William Wade or Waad or Wadd died on October 21, 1623. He was born in 1546 and by the age of 30 was serving his monarch as an ambassador...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Charming Blast from the Past: "My Name Day -- Co... : Eighth Day Books celebrated its 32nd anniversary this weekend and offered a discount of 35% on all used books and 20% off new. I found this ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saints Henry Morse and John Southworth : On Monday, October 19, Matt Swaim and I will continue our series of brief biographies of each of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales on the ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saints Barlow and Roe on the Son Ris... : Just a reminder that I'll be on the   Son Rise Morning Show   at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central today to continue our series ...

https://aleteia.org/2019/01/02/the-secret-priest-holes-of-england/   The secret “priest holes” of England In Queen Elizabeth I’s time, being a Catholic priest was a crime punishable by death… Helping one was almost as bad. Click here to launch the slideshow There has been a growing interest in panic rooms among the UK population. Previously thought of as being rather American, there has been talk of newlyweds the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) adding one to their house renovation list. Launch the slideshow  Panic rooms are, of course, a descendant of the less-favored priest hole. More of an English than an American phenomenon, they were built for the same purpose but for a different category of occupant. The intruders in question were the “pursuivants” of the English Reformation. Enlisted by Queen Elizabeth I to hunt down Catholic priests, pursuivants were intruders with legal standing. The Christmas season represented rich pickings for the priest hunters.

Memories of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs  https://www.jesuit.org.uk/memories-canonisation-forty-martyrs  

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saints Ambrose Barlow and Alban Roe, OSB : On Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, Anna Mitchell and I will continue our series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales on the Son Rise Mor...

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Execution of King Charles I: From King to Martyr : By Donna Scott It was a cold, icy London morning.  King Charles I awakened to a sharp knock on his bedchamber door at 10am for what would ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Our Lady of the Rosary and Edgar Allan Poe : In the Catholic Church today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast originally dedicated in thanksgiving for Mary's intercessio...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Two Presidents' Bibles; Pope Francis on St. Jerome... : This can't be a coincidence: Pope Francis issues an Apostolic Letter, Scripturae Sacrae Affectus (Devotion to Sacred Scripture) on Sept...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Handy Guide to Recusancy in England : While looking for something else, I found this website , which offers an excellent guide to all the laws and events of the Recusant or Penal...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ : After two segments featuring martyrs during the reign of King James I of England, we're already moving on in our survey of the 40 Martyr...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Bishop John Alcock, RIP : Bishop John Alcock died on October 1, 1500. He served as the bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely in succession and as Chancellor of Engl...

English Historical Fiction Authors: Kings, Commoners, and Homosexuality in the 17th Ce... : By Donna Scott Before we can discuss homosexuality in 17th century England, we must remember that we cannot use our modern lenses through ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Saint Michael the Archangel: An Antiphon and A Hymn : According to the Ordo of the Roman Missal of 1962, today we celebrate The Dedication of the Archangel Michael, referring to a basilica in Ro...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Sts. Owen and Garnet, SJ on the Son ... : Just a reminder that I'll be on the   Son Rise Morning Show   at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Saint Robert Bellarmine and Constitution Day : In the life of a Christian, trusting in God, there are no coincidences. I don't think it's a coincidence that today is the anniver...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Francis Parkman, Jr. on the Jesuits and Freedom : The American historian Francis Parkman, Jr. was born on September 16, 1823 and died on November 8, 1893. He is best known for his work  Th...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saint John Rigby and Saint Anne Line : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Book Review: "Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860" : This book, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, is an episodic history of aspects of Anti-Catholicism in the British American ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Regent Queen Katherine and the Battle of Flodden : Today is the 507th anniversary of the English defeat of the Scottish army led by King James IV of Scotland on Flodden Field. Among those kil...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Robert Dudley, RIP--and His Second Wife : Sixty-one years and two days after his father, Queen Elizabeth's favorite Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester died (September 4, 1588...

  ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, POPE AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH 03 September St. Gregory the Great (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)  (© Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) From prefect to monk Gregory was born around 540 A.D. into worldly prestige – his family belonged to the Roman nobility and his father was prefect, or mayor, of the city. He was also heir to a Christianity profoundly lived, for his mother and aunt are saints. The city into which he was born, however, was suffering. In 542, the plague wiped out a third of the Italian population. Barbarian invasions followed. The tumult notwithstanding, Gregory received an excellent education. So talented an administrator was he that by thirty, he had become prefect, governing the vast city. Yet the highest civil office in Rome proved not enough for this son and nephew of saints. “Go, sell all that you have and give to the poor,” the Lord had said, and Gregory heard that voice penetrating his own heart. The prefect of Rome turned his family’s villa

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Two Franciscan Martyrs of the Forty : We've been going through the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales chronologically in our series on the Son Rise Morning Show but on Monda...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: The Martyrs of 1595 : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40 ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Book Review: Martz on More : I purchased this book used; it had previously been a community college library book and the library had rebound the paperback as a hardbac...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saints Eustace White and John Boste : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40 ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Syon Abbey: Foundation, Suppression, Exile, Return... : This book, which I purchased, tells the story of Syon Abbey. As the publisher Gracewing describes it and the author: The 25th Day of Nov...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saints Eustace White and John Boste : On Monday, August 17, Anna Mitchell and I will continue our Son Rise Morning Show series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales. We'...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: 130 Years Ago Today: Saint John Henry Newman : Saint John Henry Newman died on August 11, 1890. Note, however, that his feast is celebrated on October 9, the anniversary of his coming...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Robert Southey: The Three Bears and Sir Thomas More : “In the name of God,” I exclaimed, “who are you, and wherefore are you come?”  “Be not alarmed,” he replied.  “Your reason, which has s...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saints Polydore Plasden and Edmund G... : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40 ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Kneller's Chinese Catholic Convert : Godfrey Kneller, the great portrait painter of the Stuart Courts from the reign of Charles II to Anne and of the first Hanoverian Court of...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Two More on Gray's Inn Road : On Monday, August 10, Matt Swaim and I will discuss two more of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales, Saint Edmund Gennings (portrait on th...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Gilbert Murray's Catholic Convert Daughter : Seeing Gilbert Murray's name as one of the editors of Chesterton's book on the English literature of the Victorian Age, I looked h...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: St. Swithun Wells on the Son Rise Mo... : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: St. Swithun Wells, Recusant Layman : On Monday, August 3, Anna Mitchell and I will talk about Saint Swithun Wells in our series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales on the S...

English Historical Fiction Authors: A Photo Tour of Hadrian's Wall : by Richard Denning Over the weekend of 4th to 7th July I spent parts of four days touring Hadrian's Wall.The father of a friend is a ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Two Martyrs Named Margaret : On Monday, July 27, we'll continue our series on the Son Rise Morning Show with two more lay martyrs, Saint Margaret Clitherow and Sa...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: July 18, 1538: Cromwell's Marian Bonfire : This is almost too timely: as statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary on church grounds, as well as public, not necessarily religious statues ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saint Richard Gwyn, Welsh Protomartyr and... : The group of martyrs we are discussing on the Son Rise Morning Show every Monday this summer are called the 40 Martyrs of England and Wal...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Saints Payne and Kirby : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the ...

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Third Crusade: an Early Mishap at Lyon, 10 Jul... : by Charlene Newcomb King Richard I When Richard became King of England in 1189 the pilgrimage to the Holy Land to free Jerusalem beca...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saints John Payne and Luke Kirby : The two saints I'll discuss with Matt Swaim on Monday, July 13 on the Son Rise Morning Show both have connections to martyrs we'v...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Last Words at Tyburn : Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 4...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Catholic Convert, a Shrine, a Saint, an Abbey, a... : Father John Hunwicke, formerly an Anglican minister and now a Catholic priest in the Anglican Ordinariate in England, has a blog titled &q...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Francis Tregian and Thomas Pounde, SJ : Sir Francis Tregian, who was imprisoned for almost thirty years after the execution of St. Cuthbert Mayne on November 29, 1577, finally ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Some Recent News on Newman : Just a couple of brief blurbs on Saint John Henry Newman: The Catholic World Report has posted Edward Short's article on Newma...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: The First Elizabethan Martyr Among the 40... : St. John Stone, whom we discussed on Monday, June 22 on the Son Rise Morning Show was executed in 1539; the next martyr among the 40 cano...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. John the Baptist and Elizabeth I's Act of Unif... : I posted yesterday on the Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the great forerunner of the Lord. Today on the feast of St. Joh...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Saints Richard Reynolds and John Stone : I'm particularly pleased that Anna Mitchell and I will talk about St. John Stone on Monday, June 22 in our Son Rise Morning Show seri...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Marian Era Priest: Blessed Thomas Woodhouse : I'll post my preview for Monday's episode of our Son Rise Morning Show series tomorrow: Saint Richard Reynolds of Syon Abbey and S...

Catholic Martyrs of the English Reformation John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 22 June 1535 Thomas More, layman, 6 July 1535 John Almond, priest, 1612[2] Edmund Arrowsmith, Jesuit priest, 1628 Ambrose Edward Barlow, Benedictine priest, 10 September 1641[3] John Boste, priest, 24 July 1594[4] Alexander Briant, Jesuit priest, 1 December 1581 Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest, 1 December 1581 Margaret Clitherow, laywoman, 25 March 1586[5] Philip Evans, Jesuit priest, 1679 Thomas Garnet, Jesuit priest, 1608 Edmund Gennings, priest, 1591 John Griffith (alias Jones, Buckley, or Griffith, or Godfrey Maurice), Franciscan friar, 1598 Richard Gwyn (alias Richard White), layman, 1584 John Houghton, Prior of the London Charterhouse, 4 May 1535 Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, layman, 1595 John Kemble, priest, 1679 Luke Kirby, priest, 30 May 1582 Robert Lawrence, Prior of the Beauvale Charterhouse, 4 May 1535[6] David Lewis, Jesuit priest, 1679[2] Anne Line,