Homage to the Martyrs at Deepdale
David Gorman looks back 50 years to when 20,000 flocked to Preston’s Deepdale Stadium for Mass to celebrate the Canonisation of the Forty Martyrs, a quarter of whom came from Lancashire.
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Saluting our modern-day martyrs: dare we too confess our faith?
While we debate Covid-19 statistics and lockdown measures, many of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world are readily putting their very lives at risk by professing and practicing their faith.
Communicating the faith through stories of the saints and martyrs
Sr Emanuela Edwards looks at storytelling and its importance, even in our hi-tech digital age, for communicating the faith.
Of all England’s martyrs, few left a poetical legacy as rich as St Robert Southwell
Among countless other precious possessions stored in its archives, Stonyhurst College is privileged to hold a rich collection of manuscripts of the prose and poetry of St Robert Southwell, the 16th century Jesuit martyr.
Stained glass of a Yorkshire Martyr finds a home in Lancashire
Margaret Clitherow provides a fine example of a woman strong in her faith
The witness of St Edmund Campion: a heroic story of faith
St Edmund Campion’s is a heroic story of witness to the Catholic faith, and to the horrors of religious persecution of both yesteryear and today
Stonyhurst yields its mystical treasures
“Today, we still ask our children to do the right
things in a world not very sympathetic to
religious values. And though conditions are now
quite different, Christians are still being
persecuted. It isn’t just ancient history.”
Fr John chose to die rather than yield to Protestantism
The story of how St John Plessington bravely stood up for his faith and how he can act as a model for persecuted Christians today
St Edmund’s rope binds us to the memory of his sacrifice
The life of St Edmund Campion, his martyrdom, and what a piece of rope can tell us about faith amid persecution.