Saint of the Day: Blessed Maragret Pole
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Blessed Margaret and a number of other members of her family were beheaded out of spite because Cardinal Pole - who was living abroad on the Continent and preaching against Henry VIII's break with the Church - was beyond King Henry's reach.
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, England, History, Religious Persecution, Saints and Martyrs
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May 28th is also the feast of others of England's witnesses to the faith, including -- by an amazing "coincidence" -- St. Augustine of Canterbury, the Apostle to the Anglo-Saxons.
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