ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 4th of May WELCOME! SAINT RICHARD REYNOLDS, PRIEST AND MARTYR Saint Richard Reynolds, an English Bridgettine priest, born in Devon c.1487, went to Cambridge at the age of 16, where, receiving his A.B. (1506) and his M.A. (1509), he became a fellow of Corpus Christi College. In 1513, when he was appointed University Preacher, he also became a Bridgettine monk at Syon Abbey, Isleworth, the last of the large medieval monastic foundations and the only house of the order in England. Little is known of his next 20 years beyond his reputation as a preacher and spiritual counselor. When Henry VIII began his divorce proceedings, Reynolds was consulted by many who were perplexed about the "King's great matter," as well as about the prophecies of Elizabeth Barton , the Holy Maid of Kent. Barton was executed in April 1534, but before her arrest she had visited Syon several times; according to the depositions of St Thomas More, ...