This Morning: Saints Eustace White and John Boste

Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales. Anna Mitchell and I will discuss Saints Eustace White and John Boste.

Please listen live here on the Sacred Heart Radio website; the podcast will be archived here; the segment will be repeated on Friday next week during the EWTN hour of the Son Rise Morning Show (from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. Eastern/5:00 to 6:00 a.m. Central).

Saint Eustace was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the same day as Saints Swithun Wells, Edmund Gennings, and Polydore Plasden (December 10, 1591) but at a different location, Tyburn Tree.

Saint John was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Durham, County Durham, in northeast England on July 24, 1594.

Both men had suffered torture, perhaps both at the hands of Richard Topcliffe: we know that Topcliffe visited Saint Eustace White while he was hanged by the wrists in Bridewell prison. Saint John Boste was tortured on The Rack in the Tower of London.

Saint Alexander Briant, who was born 464 years ago today on August 17, 1556, had endured similar torture in 1581 before his death at Tyburn on December 1, 1581. He was 25 years old. Boste was 32 when he was executed; White was about 50.

We are almost half-way through the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales and have more great stories to tell in August, September, October--and even the beginning of November:

8/24: Southwell, Walpole, and Howard (1595 connections)

8/31: Two Franciscans: John Jones (1598) and John Wall (1679)

9/7: Labor Day Break

9/14: Rigby (1600) and Line (1601) (laity)

9/21: Owen (1606) and Garnet, SJ (1608) (Gunpowder Plot)

9/28: Roberts, OSB (1610)  and Almond (1612)

10/5: Arrowsmith, SJ (Lancashire Recusant Family) (1628)

10/12: Barlow (1641) and Roe ( (OSB) (1642)

10/19: Morse (1645) and Southworth (1654) (Plague Priests)

10/26: Evans and Lewis, SJ (Popish Plot) (1679)

11/2: Kemble, Lloyd, and Plessington (Popish Plot) (1679)

Saint Eustace White, pray for us!

Saint John Boste, pray for us!