ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 26th of July WELCOME! BL. WILLIAM WARD, PRIEST AND MARTYR William Ward, whose true name was Webster, was born at Thornby, in Westmoreland, and educated in the catholic religion. He performed his studies abroad in the English college at Douay, where I find him admitted to the college oath, in 1605, and ordained priest. and sent upon the English mission, in 1608. The best and fullest account that I have met with of this holy man is in a manuscript relation, written by a priest, who was his acquaintance and ghostly child; only that he is in a mistake, when he affirms him to have been made priest in the English seminary at Rheims for the seminary had been removed from Rheims to Douay fifteen years before Mr Ward was made priest. The account of him sent by way of letter, is as follows: Sir, In the way of an exact story I cannot undertake to tell you the entire life of Mr William Webster, alias Ward, born at Thornby in ...