ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22 May WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN FOREST, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ Martyrs of England and Wales Blessed John Forest was born in 1471, presumably at Oxford, where his surname was then not unknown; he suffered May 22, 1538. At the age of twenty he received the habit of St Francis at Greenwich, in the church of the Friars Minor of the Regular Observance, called for brevity’s sake “Observants”. QUEEN CATHERINE'S CONFESSOR Nine years later we find him at Oxford, studying theology. He is commonly styled “Doctor” though, beyond the steps which he took to qualify as bachelor of divinity, no positive proof of his further progress has been found. Afterwards he became one of Queen Catherine’s chaplains, and was appointed her confessor. THE OBSERVANTS' OPPOSITION TO THE KING'S DIVORCE In 1525 he appears to have been provincial, which seems certain from the fact that he threatened with excommunication the brethren who opposed Card...