{"id":3198,"date":"2020-07-24T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:59:03","slug":"optional-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"Optional Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optional Memorial of Father Philip Evans & Father John Lloyd. 24th<\/sup> July<\/strong><\/p>\n

These two welsh priests were executed in Wales during the penal times for simply exercising their priestly ministry. Fr Philip Evans were born in Monmouth, Wales and studied for the priesthood in Liege, Belgium. It was forbidden to have seminaries in the United Kingdom and to practice the Catholic faith at times during the 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> centuries. The Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1791 and 1829 began the slow process of Catholic emancipation throughout the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Father Evans was sent by his Jesuit superiors to minister in South Wales in 1675 and after three years of courageously and faithfully serving his people was arrested on the 4th<\/sup> of December 1678.<\/p>\n

Father John Lloyd was born in Breconshire, Wales and studied for the priesthood in Ghent, Belgium and then in the English College, Valladolid, Spain. He too was sent to work in Wales from 1654 and worked clandestinely for 24 years with covert Catholics. He was arrested and imprisoned on the 20th<\/sup> of November 1678. Along with Fr Evans, he was brought to trial on the 5th<\/sup>of May 1679.<\/p>\n

Both priests were both found guilty of treason, for simply exercising their priesthood. Both were executed on the 22nd<\/sup> of July 1679 at Pwllhalog, near Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Pope St Paul VI canonised them along with these other 38 English and Welsh Martyrs on the 25 October 1970.<\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0John Almond<\/a> ,Saint\u00a0Edmund Arrowsmith<\/a>,Saint\u00a0Ambrose Barlow<\/a>,Saint\u00a0John Boste<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0Alexander Briant<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Edmund Campion<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Margaret Clitherow<\/a>, \u00a0Saint\u00a0Thomas Garnet<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Edmund Gennings<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Richard Gwyn<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Houghton<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Philip Howard<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Jones<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Kemble<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Luke Kirby<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Robert Lawrence<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0David Lewis<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Anne Line<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Cuthbert Mayne<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Henry Morse<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Nicholas Owen<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Payne<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Polydore Plasden<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Plessington<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Richard Reynolds<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Rigby<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Roberts<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Alban Roe<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Ralph Sherwin<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0Robert Southwell<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Southworth<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Stone<\/a>, Saint\u00a0John Wall<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0Henry Walpole<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Margaret Ward<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Augustine Webster<\/a>, Saint\u00a0Swithun Wells<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint\u00a0Eustace White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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St Charbel Makhlouf Optional Memorial<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Charbel was born on the 8th<\/sup> of May 1823 in Bekaa Kafra, Lebanon and was one of five children. As a young man, he was deeply religious and spent much time while looking after his family\u2019s small flock, in prayer before an icon of Our Blessed Lady in a grotto.<\/p>\n

In 1851 he entered the Monastery of Our Lady in Mayfouq, the Maronite Order and shortly afterwards transferred to St Maron Monastery in Annaya, near Beirut. After studying philosophy and theology he was ordained a priest on the 23rd<\/sup> of July 1859 and returned to St Maron\u2019s monastery.<\/p>\n

After a period of time there, he was granted permission to live as a solitary hermit and did so for 23 years at the hermitage of St Peter and St Paul. Many people were attracted to him because of his immense holiness and his gifted counsel, the fruit of his love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. He died on the 24th<\/sup> of December 1898. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death after praying at his tomb.<\/p>\n

He was canonised by Pope St Paul VI on the 9th<\/sup> of October 1977.<\/p>\n

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