The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. (Saint Robert[…]
Day: October 25, 2019
From the Homily of Pope Paul VI At the Canonization of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
25th October 1970 To all those who are filled with admiration in reading the records of these martyrs, it is perfectly clear that they are worthy to stand alongside the greatest martyrs of the past; and this is not merely because of their fearless faith and marvellous constancy, but by reason of their humility, simplicity[…]
The Forty Martyrs of England, Wales and Scotland
On this day in 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI officially canonized the ‘forty martyrs of England and Wales’ and, we might add, Scotland, priests, monks, laymen and women, put to death for the Faith between 1535 and 1679, as that same Faith was being persecuted and uprooted by the Kings, Queens and powers-that-be who had[…]