The Forty Four: the Martyrs of the Venerable English College Rome / Edited by Fr Richard Whinder

"The martyrs themselves speak on the pages of this book. From the gallowside we hear Saint Ralph Sherwin declare: "If to be a Catholic only, if to be a perfect Catholic, is to be a traitor, then I am a traitor." We have Saint Eustace White's final words to the crowd gathered for his execution at Tyburn: "If I had never so many lives, I would think them very few to bestow upon your Tyburns to defend my religion. I wish I had a great many more than one, you should have them all one after another."

And the final address of Saint David Lewis: "Friends, be firm of your faith, avoid mortal sin by frequenting the sacraments of Holy Church, patiently bear your persecutions and afflictions, forgive your enemies; your sufferings are great, I say be firm in your faith to the end, yea, even to death." These are but few..."

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