ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS DECEMBER 3

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS DECEMBER 3 Bl. Edward Coleman, 1678 A.D. English martyr, a victim of the Titus Oates Plot. Educated at Cambridge,he convened to the faith and served as secretary to the duchess of Thirsk. Condemned falsely of conspiring to restore Catholicism to England, he was executed at Tyburn. He was beatified in 1929. St. Birinus, 650 A.D. The "Apostle of Wessex." Birinus a German became a priest in Rome and a bishop in Genoa, Italy, before undertaking a missionary apostolate, sent by Pope Honorius I. He went to Britain in 634, where he preached to the West Saxons. King Cynegils was converted by Birinus and gave him the area of Dorchester as his see. He died on December 3, and was buried in Dorchester, Oxfordshire. St. Ethernan. A Scot who studied in Ireland and was consecrated a bishop there. He returned to Scotland as a missionary. St. Lucius, 200 A.D. The Ruler of Britain who wrote to Pope St. Eleutherius for missionaries. A convert, he established the dioceses of London, England, and Llandalf, Wales. St. Bede wrote of him.