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Monday, April 30, 2018

Fourteen Years in Northumberland

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The Royal English College of Valladolid has this brief notice on today's martyr: BLESSED William SOUTHERNE  was born in Ketton, near D...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Eighth Day Institute's 2018 "Synaxis"

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The latest issue of Synaxis is out. Eighth Day Institute (EDI) held a Benedict Hour Friday afternoon and evening at The Ladder to distri...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Bishop Nicholas West, RIP

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Nicholas West, the Bishop of Ely, died on April 28, 1533. He might be counted fortunate to have died that year, because if he had remained t...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Prepared to Serve: Blesseds Robert Anderton and William Marsden

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Some missionary priests survived for a relatively long time in the English mission, some were arrested soon after beginning their mission, s...
Monday, April 23, 2018

St. Thomas More, the Devil, and the Law

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I happened to see  Alan Dershowitz , Professor of Law, Emeritus and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus of Harvard Law School, kn...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Henry VIII's Great Bible

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In a list of ten important dates during the Tudor Era for History Extra , the BBC History Magazine blog, historian Lauren Mackay includes ...
Friday, April 20, 2018

April 20, Part Four: Blesseds Watkinson and Page and Venerable Tichborne

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Blessed Francis Page, SJ was born in Antwerp of English Protestant parents. He went to England and fell in love with Catholic girl who wou...

April 20, Part Three: Blesseds Richard Sergeant and William Thomson

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The second set of beatified martyrs today have connections with Anne and Roger Line, two Catholic converts who married and were both disinhe...

April 20, Part Two: Blesseds James Bell and John Finch

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These two beatified martyrs had been born in Catholic England but had conformed to the Elizabethan Church of England. After reverting, the...

April 20, Part One: The Nun of Kent

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April 20 is quite a day for executions during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Every thirty minutes this morning, I will have a n...