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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 27th of February WELCOME! BLESSED MARK BARKWORTH, PRIEST AND MARTYR Mark Barkworth O.P. (alias Lambert), was born in Lincolnshire. He was brought up in the protestant religion till he was twenty-two years of age, when, going abroad he was converted to the catholic faith, and grounded in solid spirituality, at Douay, in Flanders, by one Father George, a Flemish Jesuit.  He had been, as he writes, a little before his martyrdom, now eight years in the school of Christ; and, for the two first, was under the instruction and discipline of Dr Barret, (president of the English college then residing at Rheims,) where also he enjoyed the company of those famous confessors, Dr Arrowsmith , Mr Lancaster, and Mr Bradshaw, men, as he says, of excellent lives, now helping him in heaven by their prayers. From hence he went into Spain, where he finished his studies, and was made priest in the English college of Valladolid.  Afte...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 27th of February BLESSED MARK BARKWORTH, PRIEST AND MARTYR A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) ➡️ Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales Roger  and Mark  (Rogerius et Marcus, M.M. ). These two martyrs suffered and died on the same day for the Catholic faith in London (in A.D. 1601).  The former was a Jesuit and was surnamed Filcock, the latter Benedictine. They were found guilty of being Catholic priests, saying Mass and administering the Sacraments. This counted as treason.  On the way to the place of execution they sang psalms and hymns. Both of them had their hearts and entrails ripped out before they died. During this barbaric execution the heroic martyrs could be heard praying in dying voices: "God, have mercy on me," and "Jesus, receive my spirit!". These holy men are also commemorated on May 18. [ Mark Barkworth was beatified by Pius XI o...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 27th of February WELCOME! BLESSED MARK BARKWORTH, PRIEST AND MARTYR   ⬅️  Forty Martyrs of England and Wales (alias Lambert) Blessed Mark Barkworth , priest and martyr, was born about 1572 in Lincolnshire; he was executed at Tyburn February 27, 1601.  He was educated at Oxford, and converted to the Faith at Douai in 1594, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit. In 1596 Barkworth went to Rome and thence to Valladolid.  A VISION OF ST BENEDICT On his way to Spain he is said to have had a vision of St Benedict, who told him he would die a martyr, in the Benedictine habit.  Admitted to the English College, December 16, 1596, he was ordained priest in 1599, and set out for the English Mission together with Fr Thomas Garnet . On his way he stayed at the Benedictine Abbey of Hyrache in Navarre, where his ardent wish to join the order was granted by his being made an Oblate with the privilege of making profes...