PADLEY MARTYRS DIED DEFENDING THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE"

By a Staff Reporter " It was in defence of the supremacy of the Holy Father and of the doctrine of the priesthood and the MfISS that these two great martyrs suffered and died for their Faith."
Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. said this when he preached a sermon to pilgrims at the shrine of the Padley Martyrs, Venerable Nicholas Garlick and Venerable Robert Ludlam, at Padley Chapel, Derbyshire, on Wednesday. The Cardinal declared that the shrine at Padley recorded the noble efforts of the Fitzherbert family to keep alive the faith in Derbyshire. Within the nails of the chapel the two martyrs said their last Mass before being seized and taken with the owner, John Fitzherhert, to Derby gaol.
It is surely, he said, a sign of the revival of the Catholic Faith in England that these ancient shrines should have been restored and that pilgrimages should be made to them.
'' When I was in Canada last year," the Cardinal went on, "I visited the shrine of the Canadian martyrs at Fort St. Marie, which is in the diocese of Toronto. Many thousands arrived for the annual feast. They had travelled from long distances and many fellow-Catholics from the United States joined in the pilgrimage.
"I was present at the laying of the foundation-stone of the new building, which is being raised on the foundations of the old fort where the martyrs lived.
.,When I saw such devotion it made me wonder whether we in this country are sufficiently aware of the debt we owe to the English martyrs in their struggle to keep the Catholic Faith alive in England. We have no less than 360 English martyrs and this number includes 150 secular priests."