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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM FILBIE, PRIEST AND MARTYR William Filbie [ Filby ] was born in Oxford, and there educated in Lincoln college; but not liking the established religion, he forsook that university and went over to Douay or Rheims; where, continuing his studies in the English college, he was made priest in 1581: and returning soon after to England upon the mission, and happening to go to the house of Mr Yates, of Lyford, at the same time as  Father Campion  and his companions were there apprehended, he was also made a prisoner and conducted to London with them.  My author relates, that in their way to London, lodging at Henley, Mr Filbie had in his sleep a significant dream or vision of the ripping up of his body, and taking out of his bowels: the terror whereof caused him to cry so loud. that the whole house was raised thereby: which afterwards was accomplished in his own,  Father Campion ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 31st of July WELCOME! BLESSED EVERARD HANSE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Colleges at the University of Douai, 16th century   Mr Hanse  was born in Northamptonshire, and performed his higher studies in the university of Cambridge; then was made a minister, and promoted to a good fat benefice. But, by God's great providence and mercy towards him, he had not been above two or three years in that state, before he' fell into a grievous sickness, in which, as well by that chastisement, as by some special miraculous admonitions from above, he began to consider of his former life, and the damnable state and function he was in. Whereupon, calling for a catholic priest, (the manuscript says it was his own brother, William Hanse, who was a priest of Douay college, with whom before he had many disputes,) he reconciled himself to the church, forsook the ministry, abandoned his wrongfully-begotten benefice, and so passed over to Rheims. Wh...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of February WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN NELSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR John Nelson was the son of Sir N. Nelson, knight, and was born at Shelton, near York. Being come to near forty years of age, and hearing of the college lately established at Douay, in Flanders, he went over thither, in the year 1574, in order to qualify himself there, by virtue and learning, for the priestly ministry, by which he might be of service to his native country, in reclaiming sinners from the errors of their ways. Accordingly, being judged by his superiors duly qualified, he was by them presented to holy orders, and was ordained priest at Bynche, by the archbishop of Cambray, in June, 1576, at the same time with Messieurs John Colington, Jonas Meredith. Roger Wakeman, and Richard Chapman. And he was sent upon the English mission the 7th of November the same year. Mr Nelson was taken in London, upon the first of December, 1577 late in the evening as ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 7th of February WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS SHERWOOD, MARTYR Thomas Sherwood [Scholar and Martyr] was born at London, of pious and catholic parents, and by them brought up in the true faith, and in the fear of God. But being desirous to improve himself in virtue and learning, he went over to the English college, founded not long before, in the university of Douay, in Flanders, where I find him, in the diary of the house, a student, in 1576. Not long after this, he returned to London, in order to settle his affairs, and procure money to help him to carry on his studies. Whilst he was in London, he frequented the house of Lady Tregony, a virtuous catholic, who had a son named Martin, whose faith and manners were widely distant from those of his mother. This young spark suspected that Mass was sometimes privately said in his mother's house; and this, as he imagined, by the means of Mr Sherwood; which was the occasion of his conc...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th of November   WELCOME! SAINT CUTHBERT MAINE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Cuthbert Maine [ Mayne ] was the first missionary priest that suffered in England for religious matters, and the protomartyr of Douay college, and all the seminaries. I have a short account of his life and death in English, published in 1582: I have also a more ample account of him in a Latin manuscript of Douay college. I shall present the reader with an abstract of the former, in the very words of the author, who was a close friend of Mr Maine; choosing rather to offend the ears with the old language of the writer, than, by new modelling the narration, to lessen its authority, or spoil its amiable simplicity. I shall here and there add some things out of the Latin manuscript, which, for distinction sake, I shall enclose within these marks "."  "The Strand, Barnstaple", painted by Joseph Kennedy (c.1838–1893), featuring Queen Anne's W...

  WELCOME! PHILIP, EARL OF ARUNDEL AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS As the names and number of other catholics , as well of the clergy as of the laity, who, under this same reign, were either deprived of their livings or suffered loss of their estates, imprisonments, banishments, &c., for their religion; it is impossible to set them all down.  Dr Bridgewater, in a table published at the end of Concertatio Ecclesias Catholicæ , gives us the names of about twelve hundred, who had suffered in this manner before the year 1588; that is, before the greatest heat of the persecution; and yet declares that he is far from pretending to have named all, but only such whose sufferings had come to his knowledge.  York Castle (c. 1699) In this list, there are three archbishops (taking in two of Ireland); bishops consecrated or elected: eighteen; one abbot; four whole convents of religious; thirteen deans; fourteen archdeacons; sixty prependaries; five hundred and thirty priests; forty-nine d...