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BL. ROBERT LUDLAM, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 24 JULY

 

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BLESSED ROBERT LUDLAM, PRIEST AND MARTYR


Robert Ludlam was born of honest parentage near Sheffield, performed his studies abroad in the English College then residing at Rheims; where he was made priest, and from thence sent into England upon the mission, anno 1582. Mr Bagshaw gives him this character, "For his modesty and good life, and zeal to win souls to God he was beloved of all that love the catholic church." 

He was apprehended, tried and condemned, at the same time, and for the same cause, as Mr Garlick, viz. for being a catholic priest, and remaining in this realm contrary to the statute and he shewed the same courage and constancy, both at his trial, and at his death. Whilst Mr Garlick was under execution [July 24, 1588], Mr Ludlam stood by, discovering in his exterior the interior joy of his heart, that he was going to suffer death for such a cause. 

When he was upon the ladder, and just ready to be cast off, "looking up towards heaven, with a smiling countenance (as we learn from an eye-witness of his death) as if he had seen some heavenly vision of angels, he uttered these his last words, as speaking to saints or angels appearing to him, "Venite benedicti Dei, come you blessed of God." And with these words he was flung off the ladder, and so went to enjoy their happy company.

From the same Manuscripts.

[Bl. Robert is one of the Padley Martyrs executed at Derby.]

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 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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