SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 20th of April WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN FINCH, MARTYR [Blessed John Finch was an English] martyr. Born c. 1548, he was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a member of a well-known old Catholic family, but he appears to have been brought up in schism. When he was twenty years old he went to London where he spent nearly a year with some cousins at Inner Temple.  While there he was forcibly struck by the contrast between Protestantism and Catholicism in practice and determined to lead a Catholic life. Failing to find advancement in London he returned to Lancashire where he was reconciled to Catholic Church.  He then married and settled down, his house becoming a centre of missionary work, he himself harbouring priests and aiding them in every way, besides acting as catechist.  His zeal drew on him the hostility of the authorities, and at Christmas, 1581, he was entrapped into bringing a priest, George Ostliffe, to a place where both

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 27th of December WELCOME! JOHN FENN, PRIEST John Fenn was born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire, the eldest brother of James Fenn , the martyr, and Robert Fenn, the confessor. After being a chorister at Wells Cathedral, he went to Winchester School in 1547, and in 1550 to New College, Oxford, of which he was elected fellow in 1552. Next year he became head master of the Bury St Edmunds' grammar-school, but was deprived of this office and also of his fellowship for refusing to take the oath of supremacy under Elizabeth. He thereupon went to Rome where after four years' study he was ordained priest about 1566. Having for a time been chaplain to Sir William Stanley's regiment in Flanders he settled at Louvain, where he lived for forty years.  A  prolific writer, he also contributed to Father John Gibbons, S.J.'s publication (1583) of the various accounts of the persecution, under the Title Concertatio Ecc

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JAMES FENN, PRIEST AND MARTYR He was born at Montacute, in Somersetshire, and brought up in Oxford, first in New College, where his two elder brothers, John and Robert, studied at that time, and afterwards in Corpus Christi College, but being about to be received fellow of the college, he boggled at the oath of supremacy, which was tendered him upon that occasion, and thereupon was expelled the house: however, he stayed a while longer in the university, and was tutor to some young scholars in Gloucester-Hall - but not finding himself safe here, he retired from Oxford into his native country, Somersetshire, where he wan entertained by a gentleman of fortune, in quality of tutor or preceptor to his sons, whom he brought up in the fear of God, and the love of the old religion; though their father, who was a worldly man, had another way of thinking. Here Mr. Fenn married a wife by whom he had t

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 14th of April WELCOME! BLESSED HADEWYCH OF MEHRE, PRIORESS Blessed Hadewych (Haedwig, Hedwig) was prioress of the Premonstratensian convent of Mehre (Meer), near Büderich, in Rhenish Prussia. Born c. 1150, she was a daughter of Hildegundis, with whom she founded the convent of Meer about 1165, and whom she succeeded as prioress at the convent in 1183. Her brother Herman [Hermann] was provost of the Premonstratensian monastery of Kappenberg, in the Diocese of Münster, from 1171-1210. She, as well as her mother and her brother, are counted among the Blessed. Hadewych passed to her eternal reward on April 14, 1200. Source: Michael Ott, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Hadewych may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Am

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN NUTTER, PRIEST AND MARTYR John Nutter was born in the parish of Burnley, in Lancashire, and educated in the university of Oxford, where he was admitted bachelor of divinity, June 13, 1575. Afterwards leaving the protestant communion, he went to Rheims [Reims], where he and his brother arrived, August 13, 1579. He was made priest in 1582, and sent upon the mision. He took shipping at Newhaven, "Havre de Grace," in France, with a design to land at Scarborough: but the ship foundering upon the coast of Suffolk, and Mr. Nutter being taken ill of a violent fever, he was put on shore at Dunwich.  The ship was soon after lost, but the mariners and passengers were all saved. In the wreck a neighbouring minister laying hold of a bag, in hopes of meeting with some booty, was disappointed to find nothing but Catholic books, from which, both he and the magistrates, to whom he gave an acco

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN MUNDEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR Mr. Munden was born at Maperton, in Dorsetshire, and educated in the university of Oxford; where he was admitted fellow of New College, in 1562, and had the character of being a very good civilian. Being discovered to be a Catholic, he was deprived of his fellowship in 1566; and after many years, going abroad, he applied himself to the study of divinity, at Rheims [Reims], where he arrived in 1580; where he also, according to some authors, he was made priest: but in the account in Dr. Bridgewater, of his examination before secretary Walsingham, he answers, that he was made priest at Rome, though he was not of the college or seminary there; and I find him in the Douay diary as returning priest from Rome , in 1582. About the end of February, 1582-3, as he was going up from Winchester to London, he met upon Hounslowheath with one Mr. Hammond, lawyer, who knowing hi