Such beautiful typographical design work in
Zephyrinus’s 1936 Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
You don’t get such a beautiful aid
to one’s Prayer Life in a Missalette !!!
Illustration: Zephyrinus.
Supplement For The Dioceses Of England
And Wales In The Saint Andrew Daily Missal Of 1936.
(This Supplement contains the Masses Proper to the
Dioceses of England and Wales, except some for those
of Hexham and Newcastle, Brentwood, and Cardiff, which
are awaiting approval in Rome. When approved, the
Proper Calendar and Masses of these Dioceses will be added
to those of the other Dioceses, and in future editions
embodied in the English Supplement.)
29 November.
In the Dioceses of
Westminster, Liverpool, Northampton, and Plymouth.
Blessed Cuthbert Mayne.
Martyr.
Blessed Cuthbert Mayne, born at Youlston, in Devon,
was converted to the True Faith when an Anglican Minister.
He studied for the Priesthood at Douai, and was
the first of the Seminary Priests to suffer Martyrdom.
After a year of Missionary work in Cornwall, he was arrested and tried, and, on refusing to take the unlawful oath of Royal Superemacy, was hanged at Launceston, 29 November 1577, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Mass: In Virtúte.
From: The Common of One Martyr.
A Commemoration is made of the
Vigil of Saint Andrew and of Saint Saturninus
and of the Feria, in Advent.
1 December.
In the Diocese of Westminster.
Blessed Richard Whiting and his Companions.
Martyrs.
Blessed Richard Whiting, thirty-first and last Abbot of Glastonbury, suffered under King Henry VIII, for his loyalty to The Church, and strenuous defence of the Apostolic See.
He was hanged on Tor Hill, Glastonbury, with two of his Monks, and his head was placed over the principal gate
of his Abbey on 14 November 1539.
Mass: Víneam De.
A Commemoration is made, in Advent, of the Feria.
1 December.
In the Dioceses of Northampton and Portsmouth.
Blessed Edmund Campion and Companions.
Martyrs.
Blessed Edmund Campion, of the Society of Jesus,
was born in London and gained favour by his
brilliant gifts at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.
He was converted to The Faith, and having been Ordained
a Priest at Prague, was sent on the English Mission, where
he laboured with great zeal for the conversion of Souls.
He was arraigned in London, together with the
Priests Thomas Forde, William Filby, and seven others,
and condemned to death for The Catholic Faith.
The Holy Martyrs suffered at Tyburn;
Blessed Edmund Campion with two companions on
1 December 1581, and the others on 28 May 1582
and 29 May 1582.
Mass: Intret.
From: The Common.
1 December.
In the Diocese of Nottingham.
Blessed Ralph Sherwin.
Martyr.
Blessed Ralph Sherwin was born in Derbyshire,
and became a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
He was received into The Church at Douai,
and there Ordained a Priest.
He was arrested in London shortly after his return
to England, and hanged at Tyburn on 1 December 1581.
Mass: In Virtúte.
From: The Common of One Martyr.
1 December.
In the Arch-Diocese of Birmingham.
Blessed Martyrs of Oxford University.
This Feast Celebrates the Martyrdom of fourteen students
of Oxford University, who, in the 16th-Century, laid down
their lives for the Rights of the Apostolic See, in the reign of King Henry VIII, and those who suffered in defence of
The Catholic Faith under Queen Elizabeth.
The Martyrs of the first group are:
Saint Thomas More,
sometime High Chancellor of England.
And three Priests:
Blessed John Forest,
Minister of the English Province of the Franciscans,
and Confessor of Queen Catherine;
Fr. Thomas Abel,
also Chaplain to the Queen;
Fr. Edward Powel,
Fellow of Oriel College.
The Martyrs of the second group are:
Ten Priests.
Namely:
Blessed Cuthbert Mayne,
first Martyr of the English College, Douai;
Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J;
Blessed Ralph Sherwin,
first Martyr of the Venerable English College, Rome;
Fr. Alexander Briant, S.J;
Fr. Thomas Forde;
Fr. John Shert;
Fr. William Filby;
Fr. Laurence Richardson;
Fr. Thomas Cottam;
Fr. William Hart;
John Story, a Layman.
They were all declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
Mass:
As for the Feast of Blessed Edmund Campion and Companions.
1 December.
In the Diocese of Brentwood.
Blessed John Beche.
Martyr.
Blessed John Beche, the thirty-eighth and last Abbot of Saint John’s Abbey, Colchester, was attained of High Treason for refusing to surrender his Abbey into the hands of King Henry VIII, and acknowledge his supremacy in “Things Spiritual”.
He suffered death at Colchester, 1 December 1539, within a month after the glorious Martyrdom of his Brethren, the Abbots of Glastonbury and Reading.
Mass: Vineam de Aegypto, as on the Feast of Blessed Richard Whiting and Companions.
A Commemoration is made of the Feria in Advent.
