A town named after St Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais, played a crucial role in educating English Catholics
Spiritual Life
Saint Of The Week
The Lancashire priest executed for his zeal
Thursday, 26 August 2010
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St Edmund Arrowsmith (August 28) was hanged, drawn and quartered and his head set upon a pike
The English martyr hanged at the age of 80
Thursday, 19 August 2010
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St John Kemble (August 22), a much-loved Catholic priest whose execution was horribly botched
The king who stamped out paganism in Hungary
Thursday, 12 August 2010
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St Stephen of Hungary (August 16) was humble, and worked for the poor – yet did not always turn the other cheek
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (August 9)
Friday, 6 August 2010
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Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was killed in Auschwitz
The Benedictine monk who unified Britain’s monasteries
Thursday, 29 July 2010
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Aethelwold (c 904-984) was a great scholar and a ruthless propagator of monasticism in Britain
The apostle whom Jesus called ‘a son of thunder’
Friday, 23 July 2010
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St James the Great (July 25) was beheaded on the orders of Herod Agrippa at about 44 AD
The martyr whom King Charles II did nothing to help
Friday, 16 July 2010
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St John Plessington (July 19), a Catholic priest, was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1679
St Camillus (July 14)
Friday, 9 July 2010
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Camillus de Lellis founded the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, an organisation which still flourishes around the world
St Priscilla – July 8
Friday, 2 July 2010
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Priscilla has become something of a feminist theological icon, on the rather slender grounds afforded in Acts 18 and St Paul’s Epistles
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith