ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 29th of April
BLESSED ROBERT WATKINSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Robertus Watkinson [Blessed Robert Watkinson], a young English priest, died for the Catholic faith at Tyburn, London, in 1602. The priests Franciscus Page [Blessed Francis Page] and Thomas Tichburn [Venerable Thomas Tichborne] were executed with him.
[Blessed Robert is also commemorated on April 20 and on the joined feast day of the Holy Martyrs of England and Wales.]
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 110)
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PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Robert confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. 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. Amen.
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