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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Book Review: Newman and His Contemporaries

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I mentioned this book before as being on my reading list. According to the publisher, Continuum: No one in nineteenth-century England had a...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Thomas Arne, Rule, Britannia! and God Save the Queen

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For those who love irony (and who doesn't?) consider that Thomas Arne , composer of the ultimate John Bull, "sun doesn't set on...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Catholic Martyr's Shrine in Leicester

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Holy Cross Priory in Leicester cites an interesting history on its website: The Dominican friars reached Leicester around 1247. At that time...
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Blessed Thomas Atkinson

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Blessed Thomas Atkinson had returned to England as a missionary priest in 1588 and was executed in York on March 11, 1616 when he was 70 ye...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Son Rose Morning Show This Morning!

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I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show this morning at 6:45 a.m. Central/7:45 a.m. Eastern to discuss St. John Ogilvie, whose martyrdom we...

The Gorham Judgment, March 9, 1850

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The Privy Council, a secular Court, announced a decision on the case of the Reverend George Cornelius Gorham on this date in 1850. The Angli...
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The Word of the Lord (and the English Reformation)

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Another Vatican exhibit: Verbum Domini . From the website: Take a walk through the history of the Bible in this private collection of rare b...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Ernest Dowson and "The Carthusians"

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Researching more information about the first martyrs of the English Reformation, the three Carthusians, one Bridgittine and one parish pries...

Bishop Edward King and the Ritualist Crisis

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Edward King, Anglican Bishop of Lincoln from 1885, died on March 8, 1910. He was prosecuted for ritual abuses by Edward White Benson (father...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Stephen Gardiner's Nephew, Blessed Germain Gardiner

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Blessed Germain or Jermyn or German Gardiner was executed at Tyburn on March 7, 1544 at Tyburn. He was beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. A...
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