April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

Blessed Fr. James Bell Priest and martyr, born at Warrington in Lancashire, England, probably about 1520; died 20 April, 1584. For the little known of him we depend on the account published four years after his death by Bridgewater in his “Concertatio” (1588), and derived from a manuscript which was kept at Douay when Challoner … Continue reading April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”