Tag: Ashton-in-Makerfield

Friar. Edmund Arrowsmith, born Haydock 1585, died Lancaster 1628.

Steven Dowd
Friar Edmund Arrowsmith

A True and Exact Relation of the Death of Friar. Edmund Arrowsmith, a Priest of the Society of Jesus. When God, who is wonderful in his Saints, manifests their Glory by wonderful Works of his almighty Hand, at the same time that he declares their Merit, he recommends their Virtues to our Imitation. To be silent, after God has spoke the Worth of his Saints by Miracles, appears ungrateful; not to join with the Voice of Heaven in publishing their Sanctity, betrays a Disregard to the extraordinary Effects of his…

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St Oswald’s Ashton-in-Makerfield

Steven Dowd
The-Holy-Hand-St_Oswalds

THE CHURCH OF ‘THE HOLY HAND‘ “The church of the Holy Hand” – that is how the Catholics of south-west Lancashire refer to the Catholic Church at Ashton-in-Makerfield. The ‘Holy Hand’ belonged to Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs canonized by Pope Paul VI on October 25th, 1970. Childhood       Studies and Ordination       Jesuit       Betrayal       Trial       Prison       Last Words       Aftermath       Apparition       The Hand…

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