24th July - St John Boste and St Sharbel Makhluf - Independent Catholic News

24th July - St John Boste

 and St Sharbel Makhluf

 - Independent Catholic News: St John Boste�� - Priest and martyr. John Boste was born at Dufton, in Westmoreland, and studied at Oxford. After he became a Catholic in 1576, he went to Reims and was� ordained priest in 1581. ��Fr John went back to England where he worked in the north celebrating Mass and administering the Sacraments to recusant Catholics. He became the object of a massive manhunt and was finally captured and taken to London. ��There he was tortured on the rack and returned to Dryburn near Durham.