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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th of November   WELCOME! SAINT CUTHBERT MAINE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Cuthbert Maine [ Mayne ] was the first missionary priest that suffered in England for religious matters, and the protomartyr of Douay college, and all the seminaries. I have a short account of his life and death in English, published in 1582: I have also a more ample account of him in a Latin manuscript of Douay college. I shall present the reader with an abstract of the former, in the very words of the author, who was a close friend of Mr Maine; choosing rather to offend the ears with the old language of the writer, than, by new modelling the narration, to lessen its authority, or spoil its amiable simplicity. I shall here and there add some things out of the Latin manuscript, which, for distinction sake, I shall enclose within these marks "."  "The Strand, Barnstaple", painted by Joseph Kennedy (c.1838–1893), featuring Queen Anne's W...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th of November   WELCOME! SAINT CUTHBERT MAYNE, PRIEST AND MARTYR  ⬅️ Martyrs of England and Wales Martyr, born at Yorkston, near Barnstaple, Devonshire (baptised March 20, 1543-4); died at Launceston, Cornwall, November 29, 1577.  He was the son of William Mayne; his uncle was a schismatical priest, who had him educated at Barnstaple Grammar School, and he was ordained a Protestant minister at the age of eighteen or nineteen.  He then went to Oxford, first to Saint Alban’s Hall, then to Saint John’s College, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1570. AT OXFORD He there made the acquaintance of Blessed Edmund Campion , Gregory Martin, the controversialist, Humphrey Ely, Henry Shaw, Thomas Bramston, O.S.B., Henry Holland, Jonas Meredith, Roland Russell, and William Wiggs. The above list shows how strong a Catholic leaven was still working at Oxford.  Late in 1570 a letter from Gregory Martin to Cu...