Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
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August 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saints John Wall and John Kemble, Priests & Martyrs
An 80-year-old priest was told to run. He refused. 🕯️ Then he asked for one last pipe and a drink before his execution… and his EXECUTIONERS sat down and joined him. 🤯 345+ years later, people in England still call… Continue reading
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July 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saints Philip Evans (Jesuit) & John Lloyd (Diocesan), Priests and Martyrs
He was told he’d be executed in the morning. 😳 His response? “Let me finish my tennis match first.” 🎾 Meet St. Philip Evans, the 34-year-old priest who spent his last night on earth playing the harp and singing praise… Continue reading
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June 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint John Southworth, Priest & Martyr
⚔️ His judge wept while condemning him. The foreign ambassadors begged him to lie. He said no. Meet Saint John Southworth — the priest who walked into a plague epidemic in a country where being a priest was already a… Continue reading
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June 23rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Thomas Garnet, Jesuit Priest & Martyr
He was arrested, banished, warned not to return… and came back anyway. 🔥 Saint Thomas Garnet was a young Jesuit priest in post-Reformation England, when being Catholic could cost you your freedom, your family, and your life. But English Catholics… Continue reading
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June 21st – Saint of the Day: Saint John Rigby, Layman & Martyr
He went to court for someone else… and walked out condemned to death. ⚖️🔥 Saint John Rigby was not a priest, bishop, monk, or famous preacher. He was a Catholic layman in Elizabethan England, living in a time when staying… Continue reading
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May 4th – Saint of the Day: Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, and Richard Reynolds, Martyrs
They were told to choose: obey the king or stay faithful to Christ. 👑✝️ Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, and Richard Reynolds chose Christ. On May 4, 1535, these holy Catholic men were taken to Tyburn and executed… Continue reading
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March 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Nicholas Owen, Carpenter, Jesuit Lay Brother & Martyr
Hidden in the walls of persecuted England was a man helping keep the Catholic faith alive. 🕯️🔨 Saint Nicholas Owen was not a priest, bishop, or famous preacher. He was a carpenter. A quiet layman. A master builder of secret… Continue reading
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February 21st – Saint of the Day: Saint Robert Southwell, Jesuit Priest & Martyr
When the government bans your faith… what do you do? 😮💨🔥 Meet Saint Robert Southwell, SJ: a Jesuit priest who went undercover to bring the Eucharist and confession to Catholics in hiding. 🕯️🍞✝️ He preached in secret, wrote spiritual “contraband”… Continue reading
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July 24th – Saint of the Day: Saint John Boste, Priest & Martyr
🔥 “My function is to invade this land for Christ.” —Saint John Boste He wasn’t a soldier. He was a Catholic priest—smuggling the sacraments across enemy lines in Elizabethan England. Every Mass he celebrated was illegal. Every soul he served… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 