[NYer]

Red roses, each representing a martyr, were then placed into a model of the "Tyburn Tree," the triangular London gallows where 105 Catholics were executed during the Reformation.

Amazing!

[wagglebee]

In light of the fact that the English Reformation began as a political movement rather than a religious or theological movement, I think it is a true symbol of Christian unity that Catholics and Anglicans can come together to commemorate this tragic event.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Interesting post. Thanks.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Anglican Bishop Richard Chartres of London, explaining why Anglicans would honor Catholic martyrs, described King Henry as a "monster of egotism" with "messianic pretensions" similar to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.

Wow.

[guinnessman]

St. John was said to have remained conscious throughout an ordeal that involved partial hanging and disembowelment.

Reminds me of what happened to William Wallace in "Braveheart"

During Queen Elizabeth's reign, if you were caught attending Mass you were hanged for treason, but if you were a priest caught celebrating Mass, you were hanged, drawn and quartered

[Pyro7480]

Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
(Taken from a postcard that I got at Tyburn Convent in London, just down the street from where many of these marytrs were executed, and where the relics of many of these saints are kept.)

It's hard to read the print on the bottom of the second image. The numbers correspond to the following:

1.)St. Edmund Gennings
2.)St. Robert Southwell
3.)St. John Kemble
4.)St. John Boste
5.)St. Margaret Ward
6.)St. Anne Line
7.)St. John Almond
8.)St. John Plessington
9.)St. David Lewis
10.)St. John Jones
11.)St. Richard Gwyn
12.)St. John Roberts
13.)St. Philip Evans
14.)St. John Lloyd
15.)St. Edmund Campion
16.)St. Alexander Briant
17.)St. Margaret Clitherow
18.)St. Augustine Webster
19.)St. Robert Lawrence
20.)St. John Houghton
21.)St. Richard Reynolds
22.)St. Luke Kirby
23.)St. Eustace White
24.)St. Polydore Plasden
25.)St. John Wall
26.)St. John Stone
27.)St. John Rigby
28.)St. Ambrose Barlow
29.)St. Henry Walpole
30.)St. John Southworth
31.)St. Philip Howard
32.)St. Alban Roe
33.)St. Edmund Arrowsmith
34.)St. Swithun Wells
35.)St. Thomas Garnet
36.)St. John Paine
37.)St. Ralph Sherwin
38.)St. Cuthbert Mayne
39.)St. Henry Morse
40.) St. Nicholas Owen