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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Franciscan Martyrs of the Recusant and Popish Plot Eras

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Often when we consider the priest-martyrs of the English Reformation era, we think of the Jesuits: Saints Edmund Campion, Robert Southwell, ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

July 11, 1600 in Lincolnshire

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Blessed Thomas Benstead (aka Thomas Hunt) and Blessed Thomas Sprott were executed in Lincoln on July 11, 1600. According to the Catholic Enc...

St. Benedict and England

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As today is the feast of St. Benedict, patron saint of Europe, it's appropriate to look at the Benedictine order in England, before and ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Sunday Series: English Saints and Their Shrines

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I linked to a story from The Catholic Herald about how English saints have been written out of English history, and many of those saints w...

The Assassination of William the Silent

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William I, Prince of Orange was shot to death by the French Catholic Balthasar Gerard on July 10, 1584. This assassination stunned Elizabeth...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

July 9, 1540: Just Another Annulment

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King Henry VIII had his marriage to Anne of Cleves declared null and void on July 9, 1540 in preparation for his fifth marriage, to Katherin...
Friday, July 8, 2011

The Tyranny of Henry VIII and the Knights of St. John

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On July 8 or 9 or 10, 1539, Sir Thomas Dingley and Sir Adrian Fortescue, Knights of St. John, were executed by order of Henry VIII. In the c...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Three English Martyrs of 1591

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After the Spanish Armada scare in 1588, the Elizabethan regime stepped up its persecution of Catholics. Three saints were executed on July 7...

Face-off at the Frick

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I visited The Frick Collection in New York a few years ago -- and bought a paperweight of Holbein's Thomas More portrait. This blog'...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Margaret Giggs Clement, RIP

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Margaret Giggs Clement, ward of St. Thomas More, died in Mechelen, Belgium on July 6, 1570. She and her husband, Dr. John Clement, lived in ...