A Book of English Martyrs
E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
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This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in the troubled days of the sixteenth century, when Tyburn tree was a concrete fact, and when ardent love hurled the defiance, "Come rack! Come rope!" Martyrs lay and cleric are here commemorated. The Carthusians, Houghton, Lawrence, Webster; the Jesuits, Campion, Sherwin, Southwell; the secular priests, Hart, Lacey, Ingleby; the countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; the Chancellor of England Blessed Thomas More, Philip Earl of Arundel, and Margaret Clitherow, harborer of priests. Their stories are told whenever possible in the words of records of the time (Summary from America Magazine, Volume 14, 1916) (6 hr 38 min)
Chapters
Preface and Author's Note | 9:58 | Read by John |
The Road to Tyburn | 25:59 | Read by John |
''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1 | 27:01 | Read by Michael Curran |
''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 2 | 21:55 | Read by Kristine Wales |
The English Terror | 22:11 | Read by KevinS |
Papists and Heretics | 22:07 | Read by JeffE |
The Northern Rising and Its Effects | 19:31 | Read by KevinS |
The Excommunication | 25:24 | Read by John |
Increase in Persecution | 18:23 | Read by John |
The First-fruits of the Jesuit Mission | 48:47 | Read by John |
Blessed Ralph Sherwin | 13:37 | Read by John |
The York Martyrs | 23:56 | Read by John |
A Group of Lay Martyrs | 32:02 | Read by John |
The Martyrs of 1588 | 25:22 | Read by John |
Philip, Earl of Arundel | 15:52 | Read by John |
''Come Rack, come Rope!'' | 20:00 | Read by DJRickyV |
Strength in Weakness | 25:56 | Read by swiftsjourney |