...died as martyrs rather than support their monarch when he renounced his wife and formed an adulterous union.Today, we remembered them as a group from the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge came to London to take part in a Catholic History Walk as part of the commemoration of the parish's 150th anniversary.
Golden leaves fluttered down from the Autumn trees. We walked along the Tyburn route where martyrs including St Edmund Campion were hauled to their deaths, we visited the beautiful churches of St Etheldreda in Ely Place, SS Anselm and Cecilia in Kingsway, and St Patrick's Soho, we prayed at the site of Tyburn Tree, and we finished with Mass at Tyburn Convent. We remembered Bishop Richard Challoner, and visited the pub where he preached in penal times.
It was a perfect day on which to lead a Catholic History Walk, and good to be with this parish group - "OLEM" has been important to our family and a beloved great-nephew was baptised there a few years back...
And as we walked today, the Synod in Rome was completing its work ....we must pray that over the next years, we are as brave in defending and upholding true marriage as our spiritual ancestors were in our country...the Church continues to teach what Christ taught, and to do so with love and goodwill...
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