ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 8th of August WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN FELTON, MARTYR St Paul's ONE OF THE MARTYRS OF SOUTHWARK , BLESSED JOHN FELTON WAS EXECUTED ON AUGUST 8, 1570 Blessed John Felton, martyr, date and place of birth unknown, was executed in St Paul’s Churchyard, London, August 8, 1570, for having, about eleven o’clock at night on the previous May 24, affixed a copy of the Bull of Saint Pius V excommunicating the queen to the gates of the Bishop of London’s palace near St Paul’s. SHE GIVES US THE PARTICULARS His daughter, Frances Salisbury, says that this exploit actually took place between two and three on the morning of the next day, on which that year the feast of Corpus Christi happened to fall. The manuscript which preserves her narrative contains a blank where the age of her father should be recorded, but she gives us other particulars fully. He was a wealthy gentleman of Norfolk e...