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The Forty English Martyrs on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
In 1970 the late Pope Paul VI added to the interminable roster of saints an impressive group of thirty-seven men and three women known collectively as the Forty English Martyrs. So ordinary are most of their names — quite unlike the Roman Saint Eleutherius or the Danish Saint Canute — these names are so definitely English they could be easily mistaken for your neighbor!
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Tagged Forty English Martyrs, Little Ease, Rack, Saint Ann Line, Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, Saint Edmund Campion, Saint Edmund Jennings, Saint Eustace White, Saint Henry Morse, Saint Henry Walpole, Saint John Houghton, Saint John Rigby, Saint John Roberts, Saint Luke Kirby, Saint Margaret Clitherow, Saint Nicholas Owen, Saint Polydore Plasden, Saint Robert Southwell, Saint Swithin Wells, The Scavenger’s Daughter
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