ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 28th of August WELCOME! SAINT EDMUND ARROWSMITH, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [St Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ, is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.] Father Arrowsmith [born in 1585, educated at the English College, Douai, ordained in Arras in December 1612] came to the English Mission in 1613, the year after his ordination, and resided for the most part with relatives of his family at Denham Hall. HE RESIDED AT DENHAM HALL About 1622 Father Arrowsmith was apprehended and brought before Dr Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, with whom he had a controversy before being committed to Lancaster Castle. Thence he was released about the time of the negotiations for a marriage between Prince Charles (later Charles II) and a Spanish Princess. HE JOINED THE SOCIETY OF JESUS Shortly afterwards he joined the Society of Jesus, as he had long desired, making his novitiate on the mission...