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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 18th of February WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM HARRINGTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR William Harrington  was born of a gentleman's family, at a place called St John's Mount, in Yorkshire. He performed his studies abroad, in Douay college, during its residence at Rheims. Here he was made priest; and from hence, he was sent upon the English mission in 1592.  When, how, or where, he was apprehended, or any other particulars of his sufferings, or missionary labours, I have not been able to learn, only that he was condemned to die on account of his priestly character and functions; and for this, and no other treason, was put to a most cruel death. The 18th of February, says Mr Stow, in his chronicle, one named Harrington, a seminary priest, was drawn from Newgate to Tyburn, and there hanged, cut down alive, struggled with the hangman; but was bowelled and quartered. So far Mr Stow where it is to be noted, that what the historian ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 18th of February WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM HARRINGTON, PRIEST AND MARTYR [Blessed] William Harrington , English martyr, was born in 1566; he died on February 18, 1594. His father had entertained Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St John, early in 1581. Though the family did not persevere in the Faith, the youngest son never forgot Campion's example.  He went abroad, first the seminary at Reims, then to the Jesuits at Tournai (1582-1584) and would have joined the order had not his health broken down and forced him to keep at home for the next six or seven years. In February, 1591, however, he was able to return once more to Reims, and, having been ordained, returned at midsummer 1592.  Next May he fell into the hands of the persecutors, and nine months later suffered at Tyburn, after having given proofs of unusual constancy and noble-mindedness in prison, at the bar, and on the scaffold.  It was, we may su...