ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 10th of December WELCOME! SAINT POLYDORE PLASDEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [Saint] Polydore Plasden, alias Oliver Palmer, born in 1563, was the son of a London horner. He was educated at Reims and at Rome, where he was ordained priest on December 7, 1586. He remained at Rome for more than a year, and then was at Reims from April 8 till September 2, 1588, when he was sent on the mission. HE WAS SENT ON THE MISSION While at Rome he had signed a petition for the retention of the Jesuits as superiors of the English College, but in England he was considered to have suffered injury through their agency. He was captured on November 8, 1591, in London, at Swithin Wells‘s house in Gray’s Inn Fields, where Venerable Edmund Gennings was celebrating Mass. HE WOULD RATHER FORFEIT A THOUSAND LIVES THAN DENY THE CATHOLIC FAITH At his execution he acknowledged Elizabeth as his lawful...