Wood-engraving after Charles Green block cut

centuriespast:

Proof of an illustration to an unidentified story
Wood-engraving After: Charles Green Block cut by: Joseph Swain 1860-1880

The British Museum

wild horses Bestiary

discardingimages: wild horses Bestiary, England 13th…

discardingimages: wild horses Bestiary, England 13th century Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 46r

Bones Found in Pub May Be Catholic Martyr

This week’s history column at the National Catholic Register is called A Saint’s Bones Recovered, An Anti-Catholic Plot Remembered, and it’s about the Oates Plot and the possibly recovery of the relics of one of its victims. Here’s a bit:

St. John Plessington was executed in 1679 in England for the crime of being of a Catholic priest. Now, the Diocese of Shrewsbury, England is hoping to raise funds for a DNA test to prove that some bones found in a pub long ago are, in fact, those of the saint.

St. John was killed in a wave of anti-Catholic violence triggered by the Oates Plot: a largely forgotten corner of Catholic history. The incident, also known as the Popish Plot, takes its name from Titus Oates, a bizarre figure who skipped from one strange incident to the next, leaving chaos and death his wake. He was a prolific liar and fraud, and motivated not so much by ideology as by a desire to cause chaos.

Read the rest.