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They include St John Payne.
Just after I went down from the University I smelt incense in the priest hole in Ingatestone Hall where he was arrested.
I am bitterly sorry that it took many wasted years and several mystical experiences before I became a Christian and Catholic.
On my second visit to Ingatestone Hall many years later the old Lord Petre, a bachelor, had died. I met the new one and told him the story. 'Oh you smelt it too, did you?' he said with the broad smile of a man who was at ease in Zion.
It is worth reading the saint's life and those of the other martyrs.
Evelyn Waugh wrote the life of St Edmund Campion, describing the saint being hanged, drawn and quartered and making the observation that the Church of England in those days had some way to go before it became the institution portrayed in Anthony Trollope's novels.
On my second visit to Ingatestone Hall many years later the old Lord Petre, a bachelor, had died. I met the new one and told him the story. 'Oh you smelt it too, did you?' he said with the broad smile of a man who was at ease in Zion.
It is worth reading the saint's life and those of the other martyrs.
Evelyn Waugh wrote the life of St Edmund Campion, describing the saint being hanged, drawn and quartered and making the observation that the Church of England in those days had some way to go before it became the institution portrayed in Anthony Trollope's novels.
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