Issue 4 - United Kingdom: May 2019

Mary, The Cause of Our Joy!Paschal Tide: United Kingdom 2019

Our Lady of Walsingham

The Joy of English Catholic Hearts

The story of the Walsingham Shrinebegins in Saxon times. In 1061, theLady of the Manor, Richeldis deFaverches, was taken in spirit toNazareth, shown the house where theAnnunciation took place and asked byOur Lady to build a replica in Norfolk.She was promised that 'Whoeverseeks my help there will not go awayempty-handed.' The simple woodenhouse that she built soon became thefocus of special devotion to Our Lady.The 'Holy House' was later encased instone to protect it from the elements.In 1153, the Augustinian Canonsfounded a Priory to care for thespiritual needs of the pilgrims. Theirmagnificent Priory Church was addedin the fifteenth century. Only the ruinof the Priory arch remains andarchaeology has placed the site of the

In 1340, the Slipper Chapel was builtat Houghton St Giles, a mile outsideWalsingham. This was the final'station' chapel on the way toWalsingham. It was here thatpilgrims would remove their shoes towalk the final 'Holy Mile' to theShrine barefoot. ...

Henry VIII ordered the dissolution ofthe monasteries and in 1538 thePriory was closed, the 'Holy House'burned to the ground and the statueof Our Lady taken to London to bedestroyed.In 1896 Miss CharlotteBoyd bought the Slipper Chapel,which had seen centuries of secularuse. She devoted herself to itsrestoration. The statue of the Motherand Child was carved atOberammergau and based on the

'Holy House' in its shadow.

Walsingham became one of theforemost shrines of medievalChristendom. Among the pilgrims tothe 'Holy House' were many royalvisitors. Henry III in 1226, Edward I(eleven times), Edward II in1315, Edward III in 1361, Richard IIin 1383, Edward IV in 1469, Henry VIin 1487 (and many other times) andHenry VIII in 1511, in thanksgivingfor the birth of his son, Prince Henry.

design of the original statue - a designfound on the medieval seal ofWalsingham Priory, an imprint ofwhich is in the British Museum.

The first Mass since the Reformationwas offered in the Slipper Chapel on15th August 1934 and a few days laterCardinal Francis Bourne led apilgrimage of 10,000 people to theChapel and declared it to be theCatholic National Shrine of Our Lady.

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Letter from Fr. Hewko

Dear Catholics Fighting for Tradition,

The number of priests, monks andfaithful who resisted theProtestant Revolution in England,Wales, Scotland and Ireland, althoughnot as many as there should havebeen, nevertheless, was still plentiful,and they are now in Heaven everinterceding for us!

Hundreds of priests and monks wentstraight to Heaven from the TyburneTree for professing the True CatholicReligion and for resisting the newAnglican Church of Henry VIII andElizabeth I. The adventures of thepriests dressed in disguise andevading search parties sent from theLondon Tower surpass the greatestaction novels. The cheerfulness andcourage of those dragged behindhorses on a hurdle-board to behanged, drawn and quartered beforeProtestant crowds, show the power ofthe Holy Ghost to strengthen thosefacing martyrdom and His givingthem the words to say in theinterrogations of Topcliffe, Wolsey,Henry VIII and the powers-that-be. The courage and spirit of martyrdomof the Catholic women cannot beforgotten either! Let's look a someexamples from all these martyrs.

St. Edmond Campion had justfinished Mass for a group of 60 soulsin the home of Mrs. Yates. Among thecongregation was a spy and traitor,Mr. George Eliot, who attended Mass,heard the sermon and secretly went

When sentence was passed that shewould be crushed to death, her replywas: "This way to Heaven is as shortas any other!"

"Margaret, they go to their death ascheerful as if going to a wedding,"said St. Thomas More to his daughter,after seeing 3 Carthusian monks fromout of his prison cell, dragged behindhorses to the Tyburne Tree. Fr.Richard Thirkeld said on his way todeath in 1583: "This is the day theLord hath made!" "Come ye blessedof God," said Fr. Robert Ludlam at hisexecution, in 1588. "Let us live inhope," said the martyr, Fr. EdmundGennings. The noble soul SwithinWells, a layman, answered upon hisdeath sentence: "Farewell allhawking, hunting, and old pastimes: Iam now going a better way!" Themartyr, Fr. Eustace White, said whileon the rack: "Lord, more pain if Thoupleasest, and more patience!" Daviessaid: "Thy yoke, O Lord, is sweet andThy burden light!" Carey, a layman,kissing the rope of his hanging,exclaimed, "O precious collar!" Rigby,another brave layman, said, "I wouldnot change my chain for my LordMayor's great chain!" He also saidthat his pains during the butcheringwere "a flea bite in comparison withwhich it pleased my sweet Savior tosuffer for me!" Another martyr, Fr.John Sugar, said humorously,"Though I should have a sharp dinner,yet I trust in Jesus Christ I shall havea most sweet supper!" "Why weep youfor me who am glad at heart of thishappy day?" said Fr. John Duckett on

out to summon 100 men to come andarrest Fr. Campion. Upon their arrivalFr. Campion was quickly hidden inthe priest-hole. Brave Mrs. Yateswould never reveal where the priestwas hidden, but after the mobransacked her house and tore outmost of the paneling, they later hearda clatter and ran upstairs with theirlanterns and axes. It was Eliot himselfwho noticed some undamagedpaneling and struck the very hiding-place of Fr. Campion! He wascaptured, taken to London andimprisoned. Eliot later found thepriest and half apologized to Fr.Campion: "Mr. Campion, I know wellyou are wroth [angry] with me for thiswork." The saintly priest answered,partly in good humor: "Nay, I forgivethee, and in token thereof, I drink tothee! And if thou repent and come toConfession, I will absolve thee...but alarge penance must thou have!" Aftera mock trial, he was imprisoned andtortured so brutally on the rack, thatwhen asked by the jailer how hishands and feet felt, he answered: "Notill, for I feel them not at all!" St.Edmund Campion was hanged,drawn and quartered on December 1,1581.

One outstanding heroine wasMargaret Giggs, whom St. ThomasMore treated as an adopted daughter,who risked her life to care for the 10Carthusian monks who wereimprisoned and starving to death atthe Newgate dungeon. She wouldcome to visit them dressed as amilkmaid with a pail full of food, withwhich she would hand-feed them and,with the same bucket, remove thehuman waste. The monks werechained and unable to move. Whenthe King investigated why they werestill alive after so long a period oftime, she was discovered andafterwards banned entrance to theprison. The monks died of starvationsoon after in 1537, except one, whowas hanged, drawn and quarteredafter 3 more years of imprisonment.

Another martyr and hero was theskilled carpenter of hundreds ofpriest-holes, Nicholas Owen, a Jesuitlay-brother, nicknamed "Little John",who was so badly ruptured and tornon the rack, that he died at the handsof the torturers in the London Toweron March 2, 1606.A layman in Yorkshire was hanged for

his way to martyrdom in 1644. "Isthis the countenance of one who liesunder so gross a guilt [as treason]?"said Br. Thomas Pickering, aBenedictine lay-brother, upon liftingthe cap over his head at the lastmoment, the crowds seeing his brightinnocent face. "I come, sweet Jesus, Icome!" cried Fr. Wright. "Come, mysweetest Jesu, that I may beinseparably united to Thee in timeand eternity! Welcome ropes, hurdles,gibbets, knives, and butchery!Welcome for the love of Jesus, mySavior!" shouted Fr. Morse.

Blessed Cuthbert Mayne was foundguilty for offering Mass, having aPapal Bull and an Agnus Dei on hispossession and for maintaining thesupremacy of the Pope and denyingthe Queen's supremacy. He wasmartyred in 1577.

Margaret Ward, a gentlewoman fromLondon, and John Roch, a waterman,were hanged for helping a priest toescape from prison, in 1588. AnneLine, at her execution, said loudly, "Iam sentenced to die for harboring aCatholic priest; and so far am I fromrepenting for having so done, that Iwish with all my soul that where Ihave entertained [given hospitality]to one, I could have entertained athousand!" She went courageously toher eternal happiness in 1601.

Fr. Henry Walpole, who received thegrace of conversion when bloodsplashed on his sleeve from St.Edmund Campion's martyrdom, atwhich he was present, upon returninglater, as a priest from France, wasarrested within 24 hours uponlanding on English soil! He wasmartyred shortly after in 1595. Hisname can be seen carved in the prisonwalls of the London Tower.

With the Act of Parliament in 1585,Queen Elizabeth I made it hightreason for priests to enter Englandand a felony, punishable with death,for anyone to harbor a priest. Thus,how many of the above mentionedmartyrs went to their crowns inHeaven, because of her!

Our times are not yet as bloody, butthe persecution and moralmartyrdom are as real as ever forthose resisting the Modernistdestruction of our Holy Catholic

giving a priest a mug of ale on ajourney. Thomas Bosgrave, a laymanwas hanged with Fr. Cornelius, S.J.on July 4, 1594, because, when thepriest was being led to executionwithout a hat, he placed his own haton the priest out of respect, saying,"The honor I owe to your function [asa priest] may not suffer me to see yougo bareheaded."

St. Margaret Clitherowe unashamedlyprofessed the Faith before the courtand said she would gladly househundreds of recusant priests if shecould, and give hundreds of lives forthem if she had.

Faith! Abp. Lefebvre and many goodold independent priests suffered sucha "white martyrdom" from ModernistPopes and Bishops... "Let us so live,and let us so die, that we may be withthe Martyrs in Heaven. In living andin dying, we, like them, must be onGod's side always, cost us what itmay!" (Fr. John Morris, S.J., TheEnglish Martyrs, 1960). Yes,...costwhat it may! Persevere in the Battlefor the Holy Faith!

Sincerely in Christ the King ofMartyrs! Fr. Hewko

Ireland

Some of the Resistance Faithful inDublin Harbor

Our Lady guiding ships intoDublin Harbor - The Star of the Sea!

St. Joseph's Church in Dublin St. Joseph's Church in Dublin

Christ of the SeaChrist of the Nets

May We be Gathered in the Nets of God!

The Cross represents the Love of God,The Rope Edge and Shell Motif, His Nets.

The Anchor reflects our dependence on Him,The Rock ...the Safety of the Land,

The Sparkling Stones ...the dangers of the Sea,The 12 Sides ...the Months of the Year,

The Hooped Railing...the Rise andFall of the Waves.

Wales

Chapel of Our Lady and St.Non, mother of St. David.He is the Patron Saint of

Wales

Fr. Hewko saying the HolySacrifice of the Mass in"Capel Non" - Chapel ofSt. Non!

The Chapel of St. Non wasbuilt on the site of the

birth of St. David.

St. David's Cathedral, alsoknown in the Welsh as

"Eglwys CadeiriolTyddewi"

St. David was a 6thCentury bishop and is thePatron Saint of Wales. He

founded severalmonasteries in Wales, and

fought against thePelagianism heresy at that

time.

What joy our Catholicheritage brings!

England

Orford Castle,built by King Henry II in

the late 12th century

Mr. and Mrs. Wood,married 60 years. Theywere privileged to meetArchbishop Lefebvre.

Some of the youngermembers of the English

Resistance withFr. Hewko!

A young CatholicResistance fighter stands

on the ruins of themonastery walls once

dividing the cloister andthe refectory. The grounds

and the stones were allstolen by the Protestants

to build their estates.

More of the ResistanceLaity!

The Church of St.Dunstan, which holds thehead of St. Thomas More.