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40 English martyrs, pray for us!

[Fungi]

Interesting.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Bookmarking

[vladimir998]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGAypUFpGbw

[imardmd1]

Re the “History” aspect, before making up your mind, read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, most of whom appeared in earlier history.

[tired&retired]

Thank you for posting this.

[tired&retired]

Many of the saints were jovial at the prospect of death.

Cuthbert Mayne, a secular priest, replied to a gaoler who came to tell him he would be executed three days later: “I wish I had something valuable to give you, for the good news you bring me…”. Edmund Campion, a Jesuit, was so pleased when taken to the place of execution that the people said about him and his companions: “But they’re laughing! He doesn’t care at all about dying…’.

Wow... Such Faith.. Brings tears to my eyes in admiration and gratitude.

[CatQuilt]

Priest holes

definition

A priest hole is a hiding place for a priest built into many of the principal Catholic houses of England during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law in England. ...Many great houses had a priest hole built so that the presence of a priest could be concealed when searches were made of the building. They were cleverly concealed in walls, under floors, behind wainscoting and other locations and were often successful in concealing their occupant.

Many priest holes (priest closets) were designed by the Jesuit lay brother Nicholas Owen who spent much of his life building priest holes to protect the lives of persecuted priests....He was canonised as a martyr by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

[Coleus]

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
  • 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 Edward Barlow
  • John Roberts
• Friars Observant
  • John Jones
• Franciscans
  • John Wall
• Secular Clergy
  • Cuthbert Mayne
  • Edmund Gennings
  • Eustace White
  • John Almond
  • John Boste
  • John Kemble
  • John Lloyd
  • John Pain
  • John Plesington
  • John Southworth
  • Luke Kirby
  • Polydore Plasden
  • Ralph Sherwin
• Laymen
  • John Rigby
  • Philip Howard
  • Richard Gwyn
  • Swithun Wells
• Lay women
  • Anne Line
  • Margaret Clitherow
  • Margaret Ward