ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 1st of October WELCOME! BLESSED CHRISTOPHER BUXTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [Fr Christopher is one of the Oaten Hill Martyrs.] Priest and martyr, born in Derbyshire; died at Canterbury, October 1, 1588. He was a scholar of Venerable Nicholas Garlick at the Grammar-School, Tideswell, in the Peak District, studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome, and was ordained in 1586. He left Rome the next year, and soon after his arrival in England was apprehended and condemned to death for his priesthood. He suffered at Oaten Hill, Canterbury, together with Venerables Robert Wilcox and Edward Campion. Being so young, it was thought that his constancy might be shaken by the sight of the barbarous butchery of his companions, and his life was offered him if he would conform to the new religion, but he courageously answered that he would not purchase a corruptible lif...