The English Martyrs

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The English Martyrs
Topic Started: Saturday, 3. May 2008, 14:41 (90 Views)
Rose of York	Saturday, 3. May 2008, 14:41 Post #1
Administrator Posts: 14,538 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	4th May is the Feast Day of the English Martyrs. Independent Catholic News 4 May The English Martyrs These forty saints died for their faith between 1535 and 1679. They were selected from 200 already beatified by earlier popes. They were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. In 2001 their feast was moved to this day. Thirteen were seminary priests, ten were Jesuits, three Benedictines, three Carthusian monks, one Brigettine, two Franciscans, and one Austin friar. The rest were lay people: four men and three women. They are: Saint John Almond; Edmund Arrowsmith; Ambrose Barlow; John Boste; Alexander Briant; Edmund Campion; Margaret Clitherow; Philip Evans; Thomas Garnet; Edmund Gennings; Richard Gwyn; John Houghton; Phillip Howard; John Jones; J ohn Kemble; Luke Kirby; Robert Lawrence; David Lewis; Anne Line; John Lloyd; Cuthbert Mayne; Henry Morse; Nicholas Owen; John Paine; Polydore Plasden; John Plessington; Richard Reynolds; John Rigby; John Roberts; Alban Roe; Ralph Sherwin; Robert Southwell; John Stone; John Wall; Henry Walpole; Margaret Ward; Augustine Webster; Swithun Wells; Eustace White.
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Rose of York	Saturday, 3. May 2008, 14:45 Post #2
Administrator Posts: 14,538 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Old Bailey Trial Transcripts The Old Bailey Website The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. To search the Proceedings use the boxes Members may be able to find the transcripts of trials of some of the martyrs, on the Old Bailey site. It should be interesting, and give a good basis for a chat about our beloved Martyrs.
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Lilo	Saturday, 3. May 2008, 15:45 Post #3
Posts: 743 Group: Members Member #109 Joined: December 3, 2007	We had a topic started on the 40 English Martyrs a while back. Since there was only the one post, I'll add it to this. The 40 English and Welsh Martyrs Reflections There's a WIP over at Bashing Secularism - 40 Martyr Reflections (you'll have to go down to "Older Posts) The 40 English and Welsh Martyrs Reflections: # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint John Southwort... # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint Edmund Campion... # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saints Robert Lawren... # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint John Houghton # 40 Martyr Reflections: The Carthusians # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saints Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster # Saint Philip Howard # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint Alban Roe # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint John Jones # 40 Martyr Reflections: Saint John Stone # 40 Martyr reflections: Saint Margaret Ward # Saint Nicholas Owen . . . .and he promises to finish the list.
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