ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 3rd of December WELCOME! BLESSED EDWARD COLEMAN, MARTYR Edward Coleman was a minister's son, born in Suffolk, and educated in the university of Cambridge, who afterwards become a zealous convert to the Catholic faith. According to Baker's Chronicle [a protestant source], this gentleman was secretary to the duchess of York, a great bigot in his religion, and of a busy head. This engaged him in many projects for the restoring of popery here, or at least procuring a liberty of conscience for those of that profession. He had been engaged in a correspondence with P. Le Chaise, the French king's confessor, since the year 1674; in the course of which, he was continually entertaining him with schemes and projects for advancing the interest of the French king, and the church of Rome. These letters being seized, were produced at his trial, which came on at the Old Bailey, November 28, 1678. "The evidence against him...