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BL. WILLIAM SCOT, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED WILLIAM SCOT, PRIEST AND MARTYR The Manner of Execution at Tyburn   William Scot O.S.B. [Scott], who in religion was called F. Maurus , was a gentleman by birth; and bred up to the study of the civil law in Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge. He was converted by reading catholic books, and went beyond the seas; where he was for some time alumnus of one of the Spanish seminaries, I believe of that of Valladolid. and from thence entered into the order of  Saint Benedict ; being one of the first of the English that entered himself amongst the Spanish monks of the congregation of Valladolid. He was professed in the famous abbey of St Facundus in the town of Sahagun and having received the holy order of priesthood, returned into England to labour there in the Vineyard of his Lord. For a welcome at his first arrival at London, he beheld the priest by whom he had formerly been taken int...