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Saint of the day June 23

 Saint of the day June 23 St. Thomas Garnet, 1608 A.D. English Jesuit martyr. A nephew of the Jesuit Henry Garnet, he was born in Southwark, England, and studied for the priesthood at St. Omer, France, and Valladolid, Spain. Initially ordained as a secular priest, he joined the Jesuits in 1604 and worked to advance the Catholic cause in Warwick until his arrest in 1606. He was exiled after months of torture but returned in 1607 and was soon arrested. He was hanged at Tyburn. Beatified in 1929, he was canonized in 1970 and is included among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.  https://www.jesuit.org.sg/june-thomas-garnet-sj St. Agrippina, Roman Catholic Martyr. Martyr, whose shrine is venerated as a site of miracles. Agrippina is believed to have come from a good Roman family. She was caught up in the persecutions instituted by Emperor Valerian or Diocletian and was beheaded or scourged. Her body was taken to Mineo, Sicily, by three devout Christian women. The gravesite bec...
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St Aloysius Gonzaga and St Mewan Celebrated on June 21st

St Aloysius Gonzaga and St Mewan Celebrated on June 21st https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/182
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Gospel in Art: What I tell you in the dark, say in the light

  Gospel in Art: What I tell you in the dark, say in the light https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/5
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Saint of the day June 21

 Saint of the day June 21 St. John Rigby, 1600 A.D. Martyr of England, a layman executed at Southwark. He was born near Wigan, England, and was reconciled to the Church. Admitting that he was a Catholic, he was arrested and placed in Newgate Prison. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark on June 21. John is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.   English martyr; b. about 1570 at Harrocks Hall, Eccleston, Lancashire; executed at St. Thomas Waterings, 21 June, 1600. He was the fifth or sixth son of Nicholas Rigby, by Mary, daughter of Oliver Breres of Preston. In the service of Sir Edmund Huddleston, at a time when his daughter, Mrs. Fortescue, being then ill, was cited to the Old Bailey for recusancy, Rigby appeared on her behalf; compelled to confess himself a Catholic, he was sent to Newgate. The next day, 14 February, 1599 or 1600, he signed a confession, that, since he had been reconciled by the martyr, John ...
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St Alban

  St Alban https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/181
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Gospel in Art: Saint Alban, first martyr of England

  Gospel in Art: Saint Alban, first martyr of England https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55261
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Saint of the day June 20

 Saint of the day June 20 June 20th: Blessed William Harcourt, John Gavan, Anthony Turner, SJ Bl. William Harcourt, SJ; Bl.John Gavan, SJ; Bl. Anthony Turner, SJ Died : June 20, 1679 https://www.jesuit.org.sg/june-william-harcourt-john-gavan-anthony-turner-sj/ https://www.jesuit.org.sg/june-william-harcourt-john-gavan-anthony-turner-sj/ Bl. Anthony Turner, 1679 A.D. Martyr of England. The son of a Protestant minister, he was born in Leicestershire and educated at Cambridge. A convert to Catholicism, Anthony went to Rome and joined the Jesuits in Flanders and was ordained in 1661. He returned to England and labored in Worcester until he was arrested in the so-called Titus Oates affair. Convicted on perjured evidence, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on June 20. Anthony was beatified in 1929.   Bl. William Harcourt, 1679 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England, also called William Barrows. Born in Lancashire in 1609, he studied at St. Omer, France, where in 1632 he becam...
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