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During the Reformation,
when the Christian family was torn apart, many people,
including lay-people as well as priests and monks,
were killed in England and Wales in the hatred of
religious strife. They gave their lives for the good
of their fellow Christians and for the unity of the
Church in this country. In 1970 Pope Paul VI declared
forty of them to be saints, among them St John Roberts
and St Ambrose Barlow, monks of St Gregory’s. Others
were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. Pope
Paul said at their canonisation: ‘They will be a
true safeguard of those real values in which the
genuine peace and prosperity of human society are
rooted.’
Six members of the community
of St Gregory’s were martyred for being Catholic
monks.
Bl.
George Gervase (1569-1608)
St John Roberts (1576-1610)
Bl. Maurus Scott (c. 1578-1612)
St Ambrose Barlow (1585-1641)
Bl. Philip Powell (c. 1594-1646)
Bl. Thomas Pickering (1621-1679)
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