ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 20th of April WELCOME! BLESSED JAMES BELL, PRIEST AND MARTYR [Blessed James Bell was an English] priest and martyr, born at Warrington in Lancashire, England, probably about 1520. For the little known of him we depend on the account published four years after his death by Bridgewater in his "Concertatio" (1588), and derived from a manuscript which was kept at Douay when Challoner wrote his "Missionary Priests" in 1741, and is now in the Westminster Diocesan Archives. A few further details were collected by Challoner, and others are supplied by the State Papers. Having studied at Oxford he was ordained priest in Mary's reign, but unfortunately conformed to the established Church under Elizabeth, and according to the Douay MS "ministered their bare few sacraments about 20 years in diverse places of England." Finally deterred by conscience from the cure of souls and reduced to destitution, he ...