England

May 15 – Saint’s biographer

May 13, 2019

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

May 13, 2019

May 16 – Flos Carmeli

May 13, 2019

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 9, 2019

May 7 – St. John of Beverley

May 6, 2019

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

May 6, 2019

Call in Welsh Assembly to replace oath to Queen with unenforceable “Oath to the People”

May 2, 2019

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

May 2, 2019

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 25, 2019

April 28 – Saint Egbert

April 25, 2019

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 22, 2019

Church bells ring across England in solidarity with France

April 18, 2019

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 18, 2019

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

April 18, 2019

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 18, 2019

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 18, 2019

A king, a queen, and England’s Easter dilemma

April 18, 2019

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 18, 2019

April 17 – Third Religious Rebel

April 15, 2019

April 17 – Martyred at Tyburn

April 15, 2019

April 11 – “The sorest and dangerousest papist”

April 8, 2019

April 11 – Convicted for being a priest

April 8, 2019

April 11 – James Burns, of Burns and Oates

April 8, 2019

April 11 – St. Guthlac

April 8, 2019

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

April 4, 2019

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

April 1, 2019

April 3 – English Catholic exile

April 1, 2019

April 3 – Last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England

April 1, 2019

First royal visit to communist Cuba

March 28, 2019

March 29 – Catholic Wife of Prince of Wales

March 28, 2019

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

March 25, 2019

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

March 25, 2019

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 18, 2019

March 18 – Martyr King

March 14, 2019

March 6 – Of Kings and Princesses

March 4, 2019

March 7 – Last cruelties of Henry VIII

March 4, 2019

March 1 – Apostle of the Frisians

February 28, 2019

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

February 28, 2019

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest?

February 25, 2019

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

February 25, 2019

February 28 – St. Oswald

February 25, 2019

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

February 25, 2019

February 24 – First Christian King Among the English

February 21, 2019

February 25 – Princess, Abbess, Miracle Worker

February 21, 2019

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 18, 2019

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 18, 2019

February 15 – One of his last utterances was a prayer for the queen

February 14, 2019

February 16 – Founded and ruled a religious order as his family Manorhouse, but only joined that order in his old age

February 14, 2019

February 12 – St. Frideswide

February 11, 2019

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 7, 2019

February 7 – Saintly King, and Father of Three More Saints

February 4, 2019

February 1 – Immediately after his martyrdom, they lined up to venerate his relics

January 31, 2019

February 2 – He hastened to the king, exhibited his wounded body and related his vision

January 31, 2019

February 3 – His crime was to call the queen a schismatic

January 31, 2019

January 23 – Mary Ward and the Institute of Mary

January 21, 2019

January 24 – They called him “Ironmonger”

January 21, 2019

January 12 – He promoted the use of stained glass

January 10, 2019

January 12 – “The English Saint Bernard”

January 10, 2019

January 9 – St. Adrian of Canterbury

January 7, 2019

December 29 – His Staff Did More Damage Than His Sword

December 27, 2018

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