Monday, May 4, 2026

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. John Houghton and the Martyrs of the English Reformation Read more

St. John Houghton and the Martyrs of the English Reformation

For 150 years during the 16th and 17th centuries, England was at war with Catholicism and the pope. Hundreds of men and women, Catholic and Protestant, were killed during this dispute. Today, the Catholic Church remembers about 300 martyrs who were killed for their faith in England and Wales between 1534 and 1681. A brief history: Mary I, queen of England and Ireland from 1553-1558,...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 1
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