ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 7th of August WELCOME! BLESSED NICHOLAS POSTGATE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Nicholas Postgate (vulgo Posket ) was born at Kirkdale-House, in the parish of Eyton, in Yorkshire, about the end of the sixteenth century. His parents were catholics, and great sufferers for their religion. He performed all his studies in the English college of Douay, where he was admitted convictor (being already grown up to man's estate) in 1621; took the college oath the 12th of March, 1623; was promoted to minor orders December 28, 1624. to the order of sub-deacon, December 18, 1627; to the order of deacon, March 18, 1628, and made priest the 20th of March the same year. He has a very fair character in the diary, or journal of the college; from whence he was sent, with proper faculties, upon the English mission, the 29th of June, 1630. His missionary labours were employed in his native country of Yorkshire, for about 50 years, with great benefit...