BL. JOHN SPEED, MARTYR - 4 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 4th of February

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BLESSED JOHN SPEED, MARTYR

1594. In the beginning of this year, or, according to the English account, in the latter end of 1593, viz. on the 4th of February, John Speed, layman, was executed at Durham. 

His guilt was, being aiding and assisting to priests, whom he used to serve in guiding and conducting from one catholic house to another. He died with constancy, despising the proffers that were made him to bring him to conform.

Source: Bishop Richard Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Volume 1

⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr John

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.