{"product_id":"9780852448670","title":"Blessed Roger Cadwallador","description":"Roger Cadwallador was born at Stretton Sugwas near Hereford in 1568\u003cbr\u003eand martyred in Leominster (Llanllieni) on 27 August 1610. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.\u003cbr\u003eCadwallador's story is an intensely dramatic one. A gentleman farmer's son,\u003cbr\u003eborn into a family of devoted Catholics who 'kept their consciences in secret',\u003cbr\u003ehe grew up in the Marches which he left to study abroad. First, he went to\u003cbr\u003eRheims (where the English College from Douai was temporarily based) and then to the English College at Valladolid, where in 1593 he was ordained priest. In October of that year he returned to minister to his countrymen in\u003cbr\u003eEngland and Wales.\u003cbr\u003eFor sixteen years Cadwallador worked as a bilingual Catholic priest, mainly in his native Herefordshire but also in the neighbouring counties of\u003cbr\u003eMonmouthshire and Worcestershire. He was known as a pious, prudent and zealous missioner, noted especially for his work among the poor. His education had developed his gifts for philosophy, theology and languages: a\u003cbr\u003eGreek scholar, he translated into English, from the original Greek, the fifth-century Historia Ecclesiastica of Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus. This was published posthumously on the Continent in 1612. In Theodoret's account he found the beliefs and practices of the early church to be 'that, which we\u003cbr\u003eCatholikes hold' as against the claims of Church of England apologists.\u003cbr\u003eOn Easter Sunday 1610, while saying Mass in the home of a Catholic widow,\u003cbr\u003ehe was arrested on the orders of the Protestant bishop of Hereford.\u003cbr\u003eCondemned for being a priest, Cadwallador was drawn on a hurdle through the streets of Leominster, then stripped, hung, drawn and quartered. His head was displayed in the town centre and his quarters on the four main roads-one at the Bargates where St Ethelbert's Church now stands.\u003cbr\u003eFully aware of the dangers which awaited young Catholic priests who returned to England to reclaim 'the souls of his dearest countrymen', Blessed Roger\u003cbr\u003eCadwallador was spared none of the 'miseries' predicted for him, yet his attractive and cheerful character shines through it all. This is an inspirational and heroic story of a young man who gave his life for the priesthood.\u003cbr\u003eLynne Surtees was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and though educated at the\u003cbr\u003eConvent school, began life as an Anglican. Married to a Church of England clergyman,\u003cbr\u003eshe has four children (and four grandchildren). Now retired from nursing, she lives in\u003cbr\u003eHereford, and, received into 'all the riches of the Catholic faith', is a parishioner of\u003cbr\u003eSt Francis Xavier and an Oblate of Belmont Abbey.","brand":"Gracewing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49859390767344,"sku":"9780852448670","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780852448670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}