St Oswald’s Ashton-in-Makerfield

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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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