Tyburn martyrs
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August 30th – Saint of the Day: Saint Margaret Ward, Wife, Servant & Martyr
She walked into one of England’s most feared prisons with a basket of bread. 🧺 Hidden underneath? A rope. 🪢 Margaret Ward wasn’t a nun, a noble, or a scholar. She was a servant. And when she heard a priest… Continue reading
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July 1st – Saint of the Day: Saint Oliver Plunkett, Bishop & Martyr
He was convicted of high treason. ⚖️ His actual crime? Being a Catholic priest. 😤 Saint Oliver Plunkett was the last Catholic martyr executed in England, hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in 1681 for the “crime” of promoting the… 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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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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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
