ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 28th of November
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BLESSED JAMES THOMPSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Blessed James Thompson (Also known as James Hudson) was a martyr who was born in or near York, England, and, having nearly all his life in that city, died there, November 28, 1582.
Blessed James arrived at Dr Allen's college at Reims September 19, 1580, and in May of the next year, by virtue of a dispensation, was admitted at Soissons, with one Nicholas Fox, to all Sacred orders within twelve days, although at the time he was so ill that he could hardly stand.
HE WAS SENT ON THE MISSION
He was sent on the mission the following August 10, and was arrested at York on August 11, 1582.
On being taken before the Council of the North he frankly confessed his priesthood, to the astonishment of his fellow citizens who knew that he had not been away more than a year.
HE WAS IMPRISONED
He was then loaded with double irons and was imprisoned, first in a private prison, till his money was exhausted, and then in the castle.
On November 25 he was brought to the bar and condemned to the penalties of high treason.
HE DIED IN AND FOR THE CATHOLIC FAITH
Three days later he suffered with great joy and tranquillity at the Knavesmire, protesting that he had never plotted against the queen, and that he died in and for Catholic Faith.
While he was hanging, he first raised his hands to heaven, then beat his breast with his right hand, and finally made a great sign of cross. In spite of his sentence, he was neither disembowelled nor quartered, but was buried under the gallows.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
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