Today (4th) is the Feast of the English Martyrs. It commemorates the many Priests, religious and laity who died for the faith in the hundreds of years after the English Reformation. Most were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason, while other Martyrs were crushed and burned to death for our Faith.
TIL about Abbe Franck Quoex he was a Priest of the ICKSP and a famous liturgist, he was said to be the only man alive who could organise an old Papal High Mass. He had horrid cancer in his 30s and some say he offered up his sufferings and his life to God for Summorum Pontificum, he died January 2007
Today (7th) is the Feast of Bl. Leonid Feodorov, a Russian convert who became a Catholic Priest. He was raised EO and went to seminary but later converted to Catholicism, and became a Priest, he was exiled by the Tsar for his faith, and later imprisoned in a USSR Gulag, he died 3 years after release
Today (23rd) for Catholics it is the Feast of St. Polycarp he was the Bishop of Smyrna in the 2nd century and is considered one of the earliest Martyrs, as he was burned for refusing to worship the Emperor. He is also seen as one of the Apostolic Fathers, one of the Church Fathers taught by Apostles
Today (1st) is the Feast of Saint David, a 6th Century Bishop of Mynyw. He also was a teacher and ascetic monk, and legend attributes a miracle where a hill he preached on grew larger in Llanddewi Brefi. He is today Venerated as the Patron Saint of Wales, and it is believed he died on March the 1st.
