ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 19th of May WELCOME! BLESSED PETER WRIGHT, PRIEST AND MARTYR Blessed Peter Wright was born at Slipton, Northamptonshire, 1603. After spending ten years in a country solicitor’s office he enlisted in the English army in Holland, but deserted after a month, and for two years remained in the Flemish Jesuit Seminary at Ghent. In 1629 he entered the novitiate of the Society at Watten. HE BECAME CHAPLAIN AND RETURNED TO ENGLAND After holding various offices at Liège and Saint-Omer he became chaplain to Sir Henry Gage’s English regiment in the service of Spain. When Gage returned to England in the spring of 1644, Wright went with him and was present at the relief of Basing House, the seat of John, 5th Marquess of Winchester. HIS MARTYRDOM On Gage’s death (January 13, 1645), at which he was present, Wright became the marquess’s chaplain in his London house, where he was arrested on Candlemas Day, 1651. Committed to N...