Mementoes of the English Martyrs - For Every Day in the Year by Sebastian Bowden

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Fr. Henry Sebastian Bowden wrote this powerful book so we will never forget the sacrifices of those martyrs who preserved and bequeathed to us our Catholic Faith.

The heroic witness of the English martyrs you meet in this superb volume of daily meditations will instill a greater piety and zeal in your heart. Each day features a captivating short story from the life of a martyr or an excerpt from his or her writings. Their testimonies, sometimes prophetic, always profound, impart urgent reminders to us about Catholic persecution as it has occurred through time.

The period of the English martyrs opened with Henry VIIIaes "Oath of Supremacy" and the suppression of monasteries and then continued into forced Protestantism by blood under Elizabeth, and from there to the age in which Puritans killed Catholics solely for their Faith. In these gripping pages ” increasingly relatable in our time” you will encounter extraordinary examples of valor in the face of shocking danger and cruelty, including the consequences laypeople faced for harboring priests.

Stirred by the selection of stories included, you will discover:

Why the boy orator St. Edmund Campion was called "golden-mouthed"

Which Jesuit priest martyr was also a renowned poet

456 Pages, Paperback