ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM FILBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and 1560; suffered at Tyburn, May 30, 1582. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, William Filby [Filbie] was admitted to the seminary at Reims, October 12, 1579. He was ordained priest at Reims, March 25, 1581, and shortly after left for the mission. He was arrested in July, committed to the Tower, removed August 14 to the Marshalsea, and thence back to the Tower again. He was sentenced November 17, and from that date till he died was loaded with manacles. He was also deprived of his bedding for two months. With him suffered three other Beati, Thomas Cottam , Luke Kirby , and Laurence Richardson (vere Johnson). Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 ⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr William confessed the faith, ...