St. Philip Howard – 11 Years in Prison for Choosing to Be Catholic: A prominent figure, a favourite courtier of the queen, and a wanted man! When St. Philip Howard confessed that he had become a Catholic, his wife Ann also disclosed that she also had become a Catholic. While fleeing to Europe with his
How did being Catholic ever become a crime? For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church was present in England. From the early Middle Ages towns and villages were full of churches and chapels, glorious cathedrals stood in towns where Bishops resided, and there were hundreds of monasteries throughout the country. Up to the 1520s
Can you believe that England used to be known as ‘the Land of Saints’? This is the second article in the series of Great Britain’s Martyrs. See part I here. Today we take a look at Margaret Clitherow’s life and martyrdom. She has been canonized as one of the 40 English martyrs the Catholic Church
There is a dark part of Britain’s history that we were not taught much about. Why? Because we are still under the successive reign of those who launched the significant change in Britain’s history and are still in charge of education and the writing of history. Until 1533, England was an entirely Catholic country. But