Hidden Pearls of Great Price
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Although they laid down their lives for the Faith over a period of almost 150 years, the first being executed under Henry VIII in 1535 and the last under Charles II in 1679, very few of them are household names, even in England. Perhaps the only one who is widely known is Edmund Campion. In this sense…