ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS April 5 St. Ethelburga, 647 A.D, St. Derferl-Gadarn, 5th or 6th century. Welsh hermit,, Martyrs of London. Three groups of martyrs who were put to death in the late sixteenth century in London by English authorities

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS April 5 St. Ethelburga, 647 A.D. Wife of King St. Edwin of Northumbria, England, daughter of St. Ethelbert of Kent, also called Tate. St. Paulinus was her chaplain. Ethelburga converted King St. Edwin, and when he died, she founded a convent at Lyminge. Ethelburga served as abbess until her death. St. Derferl-Gadarn, 5th or 6th century. Welsh hermit, reported to have been in the battle of Camblan, where King Arthur died. He may have been a hermit before becoming a monk at Lianderfel, in Gwynedd, Wales. A carved-wood statue depicting Derfel-Gadarn as a mounted soldier was used to burn Blessed John Forest at Smithfield in 1538, by order of Thomas Cromwell. Martyrs of London. Three groups of martyrs who were put to death in the late sixteenth century in London by English authorities. (d. 1582) Martyrs executed for treason, by virtue of their supposed complicity in the entirely spurious plot known as the “Conspiracy of Reims and Rome.” (d. 1588) A group that suffered martyrdom following the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the increase of anti-Catholic feeling in Elizabethan England. (d. 1591) A group suffering martyrdom as a result of the British government’s enforcement of anti-Catholic policies.