Today in the Diocese of Southwark, the feast day of Blessed Roger Filcock, Jesuit, is celebrated. It is also the feast day of St. Anne Line and Blessed Mark Barkworth, a Benedictine.
Blessed Roger was born in Sandwich, a beautiful Medieval town and I was fortunate enough to attend a Benediction where his relics were present.
It was a wonderful little pilgriimage for me. The diocese has a pilgrimage yearly to Tyburn and then to Sandwich. Although I did not take part in the Tyburn Mass and prayers, I did attend the Benediction.
Wonderful Latin! One of the priests who led the Litany of the Saints is an Ordinariate priest. Because of Pope Benedict XVI, we have this wonderful priests and many others in England in the Church.
Blessed Roger Filcock was the confessor of Anne Line. There is something particularly barbaric about hanging, drawing and quartering a woman. Here is Blessed Roger's biography.
May they all intercede for England.