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Monday 21 January 2008

Liturgical Martyrs

Save the Liturgy or DIE for the Liturgy?
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2008/01/catholic-anglicans-martyred.html
Meant to link to this when I discovered Fr Hunwicke's blog, ("discovered" like the white man discovered the New World... plenty of people already knew it was there.)

Here in Oxford much has been made of those who suffered for the Protestant religion under Queen Mary; and the Roman Catholics have very properly celebrated their own martyrs, including Bl George Napier, who bore witness at the Castle which is within our parish of S Thomas.
Largely forgotten are those members of the Church of England who were executed - without trial - in 1549 because they would not accept the newly state-imposed protestant worship. ... Like us, they undoubtedly resented the schism in which their 'betters' had involved them.....But like us, they struggled for Catholic worship [emphasis mine] and for unity with the See of Peter from within the church of their birth and baptism.

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