[Salvation]

Their feast day is October 25th.

[Salvation]

Additional information here.

Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Memorial

25 October; formerly 4 May

Profile

Following the dispute between the Pope and King Henry VIII in the 16th century, faith questions in the British Isles became entangled with political questions, with both often being settled by torture and murder of loyal Catholics. In 1970, the Vatican selected 40 martyrs, men and women, lay and religious, to represent the full group of perhaps 300 known to have died for their faith and allegiance to the Church between 1535 and 1679. They each have their own day of memorial, but are remembered as a group on 25 October. They are

• Carthusians
  • Augustine Webster
  • John Houghton
  • Robert Lawrence
• Brigittine
  • Richard Reynolds
• Augustinian friar
  • John Stone
• Jesuits
  • Alexander Briant
  • Edmund Arrowsmith
  • Edmund Campion
  • David Lewis
  • Henry Morse
  • Henry Walpole
  • Nicholas Owen
  • Philip Evans
  • Robert Southwell
  • Thomas Garnet
• Benedictines
  • Alban Roe
  • Ambrose Barlow
  • John Roberts
• Friars Obervant
  • John Jones
• Franciscans
  • John Wall
• Secular Clergy
  • Cuthbert Mayne
  • Edmund Gennings
  • Eustace White, 1591
  • John Almond
  • John Boste
  • John Kemble
  • John Lloyd
  • John Pain
  • John Plesington
  • John Southworth
  • Luke Kirby
  • Polydore Plasden, 1591
  • Ralph Sherwin
• Laymen
  • John Rigby
  • Philip Howard
  • Richard Gwyn
  • Swithun Wells, schoolmaster, 1591
• Laywomen
  • Anne Line
  • Margaret Clitherow
  • Margaret Ward

[Mrs. Don-o]

Margaret Clitherow, pray for us.

[kearnyirish2]

I was very surprised during the recent visit by Benedict XVI when they said 10% of England was Catholic; I had no idea that it was so low (especially in light of the number of people recruited to work there from Ireland in WWII, while their menfolk were away at war).

[Coleus]

The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales – October 25 Feast Day

CANONIZATION OF 40 ENGLISH AND WELSH MARTYRS [Catholic Caucus]

Day by Day — Saints for All, 07-12-17, Saints John Jones and John Wall

Calendar of Saints for October 25

Happy Feast Day Edmund Campion!

[Catholic Caucus] Day by Day — Saints for All, Saint Egwin, 12-30-18