England

Poverty and Splendor: Harmonious Extremes in the Firmament of the Church

June 4, 2020

June 5 – My God Is Greater Than Your Tree

June 4, 2020

June 8 – Accused of theft and other misconduct

June 4, 2020

Former chef to the Queen shows how to make the same Tea Scones she has every day

May 28, 2020

May 30 – When God chose sides in war between two Christian nations, He sent her to win it

May 28, 2020

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 28, 2020

May 27 – St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 25, 2020

May 28 – Whether She Was Upstairs Or Downstairs, She Was Ever Steady

May 25, 2020

May 22 – Hanged for Printing a Book

May 21, 2020

May 22 – Queen’s Confessor

May 21, 2020

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 18, 2020

May 19 – He Grabbed the Devil By the Nose

May 18, 2020

May 20 – King of the East Angles

May 18, 2020

May 15 – William Lockhart

May 14, 2020

May 15 – Saint’s biographer

May 14, 2020

May 15 – Palms on Palm Sunday lead to his cruel martyrdom

May 14, 2020

May 16 – Flos Carmeli

May 14, 2020

May 14 – The Right to Revolt

May 11, 2020

May 9 – Known personally to the King, he was falsely accused of conspiring to murder him

May 7, 2020

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 7, 2020

May 7 – St. John of Beverley

May 4, 2020

May 4 – They believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

April 30, 2020

April 28 – Saint Egbert

April 27, 2020

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 23, 2020

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 20, 2020

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 20, 2020

April 17 – Third Religious Rebel

April 16, 2020

April 17 – Martyred at Tyburn

April 16, 2020

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

April 16, 2020

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 16, 2020

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 16, 2020

April 11 – “The sorest and dangerousest papist”

April 9, 2020

April 11 – Convicted for being a priest

April 9, 2020

April 11 – James Burns, of Burns and Oates

April 9, 2020

April 11 – St. Guthlac

April 9, 2020

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

April 6, 2020

April 3 – The man they trusted to collect the Crusader tax

April 2, 2020

April 3 – English Catholic exile

April 2, 2020

April 3 – Last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England

April 2, 2020

April 5 – St. Æthelburh and the Rose Named After Her

April 2, 2020

March 28 – He refused life and liberty at the price of conformity

March 26, 2020

March 29 – Catholic Wife of Prince of Wales

March 26, 2020

March 26 – Sheriff’s daughter, but God’s first

March 23, 2020

March 20 – St. Cuthbert

March 19, 2020

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 19, 2020

March 18 – Martyr King

March 16, 2020

March 13 – Though not a learned man, he established a school known today as Oxford

March 12, 2020

March 6 – Of Kings and Princesses

March 5, 2020

March 7 – Last cruelties of Henry VIII

March 5, 2020

March 4 – “Your Honor, was St. Augustine also a traitor?”

March 2, 2020

February 28 – St. Oswald

February 27, 2020

February 28 – The Gentleman instructed in the conduct of a virtuous and happy life

February 27, 2020

March 1 – Apostle of the Frisians

February 27, 2020

February 25 – Princess, Abbess, Miracle Worker

February 24, 2020

February 26 – Blessed Robert Drury

February 24, 2020

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest?

February 24, 2020

February 27 – “Which of you Gospellers can show such a knee?”

February 24, 2020

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 20, 2020

February 24 – First Christian King Among the English

February 20, 2020

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 17, 2020

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