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Saturday, August 4, 2018

Requiem Mass and Burial of Anne of Cleves

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Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, died on July 16, 1557 during the reign of Mary I. On August 4 she was buried in Westmin...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

The Holy Maccabean Martyrs

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In the Orthodox Church and on the calendars of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite AND of the Eastern or Byzantine Catholic Rite,...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Newman and the Blessed Sacrament

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Catholics use different terms for our responses to what the great Dietrich von Hildebrand would refer to as the hierarchy of values, espe...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Two By Two to Smithfield

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On July 30, 1540, two different sets of martyrs set off for Smithfield for execution. There were three Catholics, who had refused to swear...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Henry VIII: Matching and Dispatching on July 28, 1540

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Henry VIII married for the fifth time on July 28, 1540, the same day that the erstwhile Earl of Essex, Thomas Cromwell, was executed. Henr...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Blessed William Davies of Wales

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According to Dom Bede Camm in the Catholic Encyclopedia, William Davis, declared Blessed by Pope St. John Paul II, was . . . one of th...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Last Cardinal Protector of England, RIP

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On July 25, 1539 Lorenzo Cardinal Campeggio, former bishop of Salisbury, former Cardinal Protector of England, and former Papal Legate in ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

One of 85; One of 40: Lambton and Boste

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The  Catholic Encyclopedia  cites a horrible  detail  in the execution of Blessed Joseph Lambton, most likely on July 24, 1592 at Newcas...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Maurice Chauncey: A Carthusian Who Took the Oath

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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia , Maurice Chauncey was: Prior of the English Carthusians at Bruges, date of birth unknown; die...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

St. Mary Magdalene and the English Reformation

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Today is one of my name days honoring one of my three patron saints (St. Stephen, St. Anne, and St. Mary Magdalene)--it would be celebrat...