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St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith
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Congratulations to all children, who made their first communion today. Thank you to our catechists for preparing them.
St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith
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St Antony of Padua

Saint Antony was first of all an Augustinian monk, but he was so impressed by the martyrdom of five Franciscans who had been spreading the faith in Morocco that he became a Franciscan friar himself, so that he could preach the gospel in Africa too. Illness obliged him to leave Morocco, and a storm then drove his ship to Sicily, so that he found himself taking part in the General Chapter of the Franciscans in 1221, where he met Saint Francis of Assisi himself. His preaching career then took him to northern Italy and southern France, then a stronghold of the Albigensian heresy. Later he returned to Italy, to Padua, where he was an outstanding preacher and the first Franciscan theologian. His sermons are full of gentleness, but he reproved the wicked with fearless severity – especially backsliding clergy and the oppressors of the weak.
His shrine is a centre of pilgrimage, and he is also the patron saint of the lost and found.

We welcome pilgrimage groups to visit by arrangement. please use the “Contact us” page on this website

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Open for Veneration of The Holy Hand and Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament

The Holy Hand of St Edmund Arrowsmith is now available for public veneration each weekday from 10.00am to 12.00pm midday, during which time we have adoration of The Blessed Sacrament, followed by Benediction and The Angelus at 12noon.  Private blessings on request

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