New statue of St Edmund Campion

New statue of St Edmund Campion

Here’s a list of the cool Catholic stuff I saw on my two weeks in England and Italy:

  1. The site on Tower Hill where St Thomas More and St John Fisher were beheaded
  2. St Henry Walpole’s name carved by him in wall of the Salt Tower at the Tower of London
  3. Tyburn where the priests were hung drawn and quartered
  4. The relics of St Cuthbert Mayne
  5. The tombs of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I and close by that of Mary Queen of Scots
  6. The burial place of the head of St Thomas More
  7. The site of the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
  8. The place where T,S.Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral was first performed
  9. The hand of St Etheldreda
  10. The priest’s hole at Oxborough Hall
  11. The bare ruined choirs of Walsingham
  12. A statue of St Edmund Campion which I brought home with me
  13. The house where they found John Shakespeare’s secret Catholic tract
  14. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
  15. Shakespeare’s grave
  16. J.R.R.Tolkien’s grave
  17. Lots of churches in Rome
  18. The head of St Valentine
  19. The tomb of St Peter
  20. The Colosseum
  21. The relics of the true cross
  22. The marble throne of St Gregory the Great who sent St Augustine to England
  23. San Clemente (again)
  24. The birthplace of St Benedict and St Scholastica
  25. Young monks at Norcia
  26. The incorrupt body of St Rita (who they say has been known to move and open her eyes)
  27. the tomb of St Francis and St Clare
  28. Sant Antimo Abbey
  29. The head of St Catherine of Siena
  30. Monte Oliveto Monastery and the hermitage of Saint Barnardo Tolomei
  31. The relics of Saint John Bosco and St Dominic Savio
  32. The tomb of Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
  33. The Shroud of Turin