SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 19th of August WELCOME! BLESSED HUGH GREEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR Mr Hugh Green, who was known upon the mission by the name of Ferdinand Brooks, or, as he is called in Mr Ireland's diary, Ferdinand Brown, was born in London, about the year 1584, and after an academical education at Cambridge, became a convert and went abroad to the English college of Douay, where he was admitted to the usual oath, and received alumnus, July 7, 1610. He was confirmed at Cambray, September 25, 1611, was advanced to the minor orders. and made sub-deacon at Arras, December 17, deacon March 18, and priest June 14, 1612. He sung his first Mass on St John Baptist's day, June 24, and left the college on the 6th of August following, in order to enter himself amongst the Capuchins; but the want of health, or some other impediment preventing his going through with that difficult enterprise, he went over upon the English mission, where he laboured for ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 26th of April WELCOME! VENERABLE EDWARD MORGAN, PRIEST AND MARTYR Edward Morgan, alias Singleton, was born in Flintshire, of North-Wales, and was educated in the English college of Douay¹; from hence he was sent into Spain (as appears by the account he gave of himself to the people at the place of execution) and there made a priest at Salamanca. From Spain he went to Rome; and from Rome he came upon the English mission.  In England, after some time, he was apprehended and committed to the Fleet prison, where he remained confined for fourteen or fifteen years, suffering much from the loathsomeness of the place, and the want of all necessaries, more particularly during the two last years; with this additional aggravation to his sufferings, that some were pleased to give it out that he was mad; which slander he willingly forgave, amongst many other injuries, which he had to suffer from the malice of his adversaries. At len...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 13th of April WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN LOCKWOOD, PRIEST AND MARTYR Fr Lockwood is taken to York Castle - Woodcut c/o Memoirs of Missionary Priests &.c., Ven. and Rt. Rev. R. Challoner, New Edition, Thomas Jones, London, Paternoster Row, 1842 John Lockwood, alias Lassels, was eldest son of Christopher Lockwood, esq. of Soresby in the county of York, by N. Lassels his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Lassels of Brackenbrough, in the same county. He was born in 1555, according to the Douay diary, which gives him no more than 87 years of age, when he suffered; (though I have before me some relations, which affirm that he was at that time 96 years old). He had exercised his priestly functions, according to the same diary, for the space of 44 years before his martyrdom: so it is likely he did not retire out of England till late. Whenever it was, we are assured that he voluntarily quitted an estate of four hundred a year, to devote hi...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 14th of January WELCOME! THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE The Feast of the Infant Jesus of Prague, which celebrates the mystery of the Incarnation, is observed on  January 14. The statue of the  Infant Jesus was brought to Prague by the Spanish Duchess Marie Manriquez, who married Vrastislav of Pernstein in 1556. Later she gave the statue to her daughter Polyxena of Lobkovic as a wedding gift. She greatly venerated the statue and received consolation and help from it many times. For more than three centuries, this promise has inspired a worldwide devotion to the Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague. The original statue is still preserved in the church of St Mary of Victory in Prague, Czech Republic. Saint Therese  has  shown best to the world the virtues of that spiritual childhood which Our Lord has commanded all His followers to cultivate. In her simplicity she was a child at heart; her utter confidence and ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 1st of July WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS MAXFIELD, PRIEST AND MARTYR London Oratory, The Martyrs of Tyburn Tree (detail)  Thomas Maxfield  was descended of an ancient family of this name in Staffordshire. His father, who was a man of great piety, had suffered much for his religion; and besides the confiscation of his estate, and a long and close imprisonment of many years, was actually under sentence of death for his faith when his son was born; his wife being at the same time a close prisoner for the same cause.  As for Mr Thomas, having got some little tincture of grammar in his own country, he was sent abroad to the English college of Douay, where he arrived in 1603, and there made a good progress in learning; finished his course of philosophy; and was advanced two years in the study of divinity, when he was attacked with a long and lingering sickness, which which obliged him to interrupt his studies, and return ...