ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 22nd of August WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM LACY, PRIEST AND MARTYR ⬅️ The English Martyrs Born at “Hanton”, Yorkshire (probably Houghton or Tosside, West Riding); suffered at York, August 22, 1582. He married a widow, named Cresswell, whose sons, Arthur and Joseph, became Jesuits. Little is related of his family by his biographers. He had a brother Ralph of Preston in Amounderness, a sister Barbara, and nephews (apparently her sons) Robert and William. He held a position of emolument under the Crown, possibly as coroner, till about 1565. After fourteen years’ persecution for his faith, which included imprisonment at Hull, and after the death of his wife, he went abroad and arrived at Reims, June 22, 1580. HE BECAME A PRIEST On September 25 following he went on to Pont-a-Mousson, and thence to Rome, where, after obtaining a dispensation, he became a priest. The dispensation was necessary before ordinatio...