Who are the English Martyrs?
Canonised on 19 May 1935:
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St John Fisher
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St Thomas More
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Canonised on 25 October 1970:
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed between 1535 and 1679 for treason and related offences under various laws enacted by Parliament during the English Reformation. The English martyrs in this group are:
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Saint John Almond
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Saint Edmund Arrowsmith S.J
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Saint Ambrose Barlow O.S.B
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Saint John Boste
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Saint Alexander Briant S.J
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Saint Edmund Campion S.J
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Saint Margaret Clitherow
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Saint Thomas Garnet S.J
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Saint Edmund Gennings
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Saint John Houghton O.Cart
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Saint Philip Howard
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Saint John Kemble
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Saint Luke Kirby
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Saint Robert Lawrence O.Cart
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Saint Anne Line
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Saint Cuthbert Mayne
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Saint Henry Morse S.J
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Saint Nicholas Owen S.J
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Saint John Payne
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Saint Polydore Plasden
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Saint John Plessington
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Saint Richard Reynolds O.Ss.S
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Saint John Rigby
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Saint Ralph Sherwin
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Saint Robert Southwell S.J
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Saint John Southworth
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Saint John Stone O.E.S.A
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Saint Henry Walpole
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Saint Margaret Ward
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Saint Augustine Webster O.Cart
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Saint Swithun Wells
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Saint Eustace White
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Click here to read more about the history and the English Martyrs.
Stained glass windows at English Martyrs Church Didcot
On 15th December, 2017, two stained glass windows were installed in English Martyrs, Didcot. The windows were made by John Hardman Powell, the artist who made the stained glass windows for the House of Commons. The windows were purchased from English Salvage and are believed to have originated from a private chapel in Cambridge. They needed considerable restoration which was expertly carried out by Chapel Studios of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire who, with local window installation company Primefit, installed the panels in their new frames in the church. The project was financed largely by the Living Our Faith fund. They were blessed by Bishop Philip at Vespers on 16th February, 2018.
The windows depict (on the liturgical south side of the church) Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster and (on the liturgical north side) St Edmund Campion.
Click here for more information about our stained glass windows.
