Book of English Martyrs

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Christianity - Biographies

Authors: E. M. Wilmot-Buxton In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

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Preface and Author's Note
The Road to Tyburn
''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1
''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 2
The English Terror
Papists and Heretics
The Northern Rising and Its Effects
The Excommunication
Increase in Persecution
The First-fruits of the Jesuit Mission
Blessed Ralph Sherwin
The York Martyrs
A Group of Lay Martyrs
The Martyrs of 1588
Philip, Earl of Arundel
''Come Rack, come Rope!''
Strength in Weakness

This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in the troubled days of the sixteenth century, when Tyburn tree was a concrete fact, and when ardent love hurled the defiance, "Come rack! Come rope!" Martyrs lay and cleric are here commemorated. The Carthusians, Houghton, Lawrence, Webster; the Jesuits, Campion, Sherwin, Southwell; the secular priests, Hart, Lacey, Ingleby; the countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; the Chancellor of England Blessed Thomas More, Philip Earl of Arundel, and Margaret Clitherow, harborer of priests. Their stories are told whenever possible in the words of records of the time (Summary from America Magazine, Volume 14, 1916)