ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 6th of May WELCOME! BLESSED EDWARD JONES, PRIEST AND MARTYR [Blessed Edward Jones was a] priest and martyr, born in the Diocese of St Asaph, Wales, date unknown; he died in London, May 6, 1590. Bred an Anglican, he was received into the Church at the English College, Reims, 1587; he was ordained priest in 1588, and went to England in the same year. In 1590 he was arrested by a priest-catcher, who pretended to be a Catholic, in a shop in Fleet Street. He was imprisoned in the Tower and brutally tortured by Topcliffe, finally admitting he was a priest and had been an Anglican. These admissions were used against him at his trial, but he made a skillful and learned defence, pleading that a confession elicited under torture was not legally sufficient to ensure a conviction. The court complimented him on his courageous bearing, but of course he was convicted of high treason as a priest coming into England. On the same day he was hange