ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 27th of August WELCOME! SAINT CHARLES BAKER, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales (According to his own entry in the English College David Henry Lewis) [His feast day in Wales is August 26] He was English Jesuit martyr, born in Monmouthshire in 1616; died at Usk, August 27, 1679. His father, Morgan Lewis, was a lax Catholic, afterwards converted; his mother, Margaret Pritchard, was a very devout Catholic. David was brought up as a Protestant, and educated at the Royal Grammar School at Abergavenny, of which his father was the head master. AS A TEENAGER, HE WAS RECEIVED INTO THE CHURCH In his sixteenth year, he spent three months in Paris as companion to the son of Earl Rivers, and there was received into the Church by a Father Talbot, S.J. On returning to England he remained with his parents till their death and then, having a desire for the priesthood, went to Rome, where...