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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 20th of April WELCOME! BLESSED ROBERT WATKINSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR Robert Watkinson was born at Hemingborough, in Yorkshire, and had his education abroad, partly in the college of Douay, and partly in that of Rome: he went through his course of philosophy in the latter; but was obliged, for his health, to return to Douay to study his divinity: but the change of air made no great alteration in the state of his health; so that his superiors thought it best to present him to holy orders, and send him over into England. He was ordained priest at Arras, and on the third of April following, began his journey for England.  Whilst he was at London, under the care of a physician, he was betrayed by one John Fewether, a false brother, apprehended, arraigned and condemned, on the 17th of April, and executed on the 20th of the same month. He suffered with great constancy, at Tyburn, in the company of Mr Tichburn and Mr Page. There ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 29th of April WELCOME! BLESSED ROBERT WATKINSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales Robertus Watkinson  [Blessed Robert Watkinson], a young English priest, died for the Catholic faith at Tyburn, London, in 1602. The priests Franciscus Page [Blessed Francis Page] and Thomas Tichburn  [Venerable Thomas Tichborne] were executed with him. [Blessed Robert is also commemorated on April 20 and on the joined feast day of the Holy Martyrs of England and Wales.] (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 110)   Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Robert confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of t...