Hidden Pearls of Great Price, by Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 5, 2024

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine.  …

A trio of female English Martyrs deserve a special place among the unsung heroes of Christendom.

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, each of these martyrs deserves a place among the unsung heroes of Christendom. We will focus, however, on the three women in their number, one of whom might be almost as well-known as Edmund Campion, whereas the other two will probably be unknown even to devout Catholics. …

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