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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of December WELCOME! SAINT JOHN ALMOND, PRIEST AND MARTYR London Oratory, The Martyrs of Tyburn Tree (detail)  John Almond , who in his examination before the bishop of London calls himself Francis Lathome, and who was known upon the mission by the name of Molineux, was born on the skirts of Allerton near Liverpool, in Lancashire, and brought up at school at Much Woolton in the same county, and from hence he passed over into Ireland, and so abroad into the world. He must have left home when he was about 15 or 16 years old, if he be the Almond whom I find in the Douay Diary, sent from Rheims to Rome in 1582: but then he must have been more than ten years abroad, which is the time that my old manuscript affirms he employed beyond the seas to improve himself in virtue and learning. Certain it is, that he was at least 45 years old when he suffered, though his grey hairs seemed to speak him older; and that he did not ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of December WELCOME! SAINT JOHN ALMOND, PRIEST AND MARTYR  ⬅️ Forty Martyrs of England and Wales It was while Speke Hall was still in Catholic hands that Rev. John Almond died for the Catholic Faith.  He was born about the year 1577 at Speke, so one account says, or on the borders of Alperton, as he himself states in his examination. He went to school at Much Woolton, and passed thence to the English College at Rheims and then to that at Rome. Little is known of his life on the Mission, but the following account of him is given in Challoner’s Memoirs of Missionary Priests: FROM THE 'MEMOIRS OF MISSIONARY PRIESTS' 'On Saturday, being 5th December, 1612, between 7 and 8 in the morning, came to suffer at Tyburn for the Catholic religion John Almond, a man of the age of 45, by his own relation; yet in his countenance more grave and staid, beginning to be besprinkled with hairs that were white - who having tarrie...