ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 27th of July WELCOME! BLESSED JOSEPH LAMPTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR Joseph Lampton [Lambton] was born of a gentleman's family, at Malton in Yorkshire, and going abroad to the college then residing at Rheims, there performed part of his studies, and being in his divinity, went from thence to Rome, to the English college of that city, in 1589. But he had not been here long, before his zeal for the salvation of the souls of his neighbours prompted him to desire to break off the course of his school divinity, and to return home to look after the lost sheep. So being made priest, he was sent upon the mission, where he was immediately apprehended, and committed to prison, and not long after brought to the bar, arraigned and condemned for being a priest, and coming into England to perform his priestly offices in this kingdom. For this, and no other treason, he was sentenced to die the death of a traitor, which he suffered wi...