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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 3rd of December WELCOME! WILLIAM SHERWOOD, BISHOP OF MEATH William Sherwood, Bishop of Meath, died at Dublin, December 3, 1482. He was an English ecclesiastic who obtained the see by papal provision in April, 1460. Of his earlier life nothing is known. He soon came into conflict with Thomas Fitzgerald, eighth Earl of Desmond, who was deputy to George, Duke of Clarence, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The earl accused the bishop of instigating the murder of some of his followers, and in 1464 both went to England to lay their grievances before the king. Edward IV upheld the earl, who was supported by the Irish parliament, and acquitted him of all charges of disloyalty and treasonable relations with the Irish people. But when in 1467 he was disgraced, and succeeded by the Earl of Worcester, Bishop Sherwood was suspected of leading the opposition, which finally brought the earl to the scaffold. Some years after his rival's death,...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of January WILLIAM WALSH, BISHOP OF MEATH, MARTYR ⬅️ List: Irish Confessors and Martyrs [William Walsh] (Wilhelmus Willelmus) is also remembered on January 2. This zealous servant of God was a Cistercian and Bishop of Meath in Ireland, and was surnamed Valchaeus .  Devoted to the Catholic faith with utmost fervour, he defended it against the attacks of the innovators of that time with such success that, on the orders of Queen Elizabeth, they decided to have him imprisoned and murdered.  For thirteen years he had to languish in a narrow and dark prison, whereupon he was expelled from the country. He went to Spain and found a willing reception in the religious house of Alcala des Henarez. But the prolonged ordeal in prison had left him with a wasting illness, to which he succumbed shortly after his arrival on the Iberian peninsula - in 1577. (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5,...