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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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