Wednesday 30 December 2015

The Martyrs' Home and Ours (1) - Reflection for 30th December - the English Martyrs, Lawrence Anderson - Jesuit

THE MARTYRS' HOME AND OURS (1)
Lawrence Anderson - Jesuit
 
Jerusalem, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see
 
O happy harbour of the saints!
O sweet and pleasant soil!
In thee no sorrow may be found,
No grief, no care, no toil.
 
In thee no sickness may be seen,
No hurt, no ache, no sore;
In thee there is no dread of death,
But life for evermore.
 
Thy gardens and thy gallant walks
Continually are green;
There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers
As nowhere else are seen.
 
Quite through the streets with silver sound
The flood of life doth flow,
Upon whose banks on every side
The wood of life doth grow.
 
There trees for evermore bear fruit,
And evermore do spring;
There evermore the angels sit,
And evermore do sing.
 
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Saint Philomena, DVD of her life, Wonder-Worker, Early Christian Saint, Miracles

SAINT PHILOMENA
A DVD of her life and powerful intercession
 
 
St. Philomena DVD

Saint Philomena is one of the most powerful saints of the Church.  Her tomb was discovered in the catacombs in the 19th Century and since then so many miracles have occurred through her intercession that she has become known as the wonder-worker.  Her story takes place in the beginning of the Church during the Roman Empire and includes a look at the history of devotion to her, the finding of her relics, her great devotees including Saints and Popes, her role as Protectress of the Living Rosary Association and how powerful she is with God.  
Saint Philomena
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Screenshot from 'Saint Philomena' DVD
In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this inspiring Saint.
Devotion to Saint Philomena
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Screenshot from 'Saint Philomena' DVD
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Saint Helen and the True Cross - Patron Saint of Archaeologists, Roman Christianity, Pilgrimage and Emporers

SAINT HELEN AND THE TRUE CROSS
A DVD from Mary's Dowry Productions
 
 
Saint Helen and the True Cross
 
Catholicism and archaeology combine in a story of the Roman Empire and Catholic Spirituality amidst miracles, searching and trust.  From England to Jerusalem, the holy Empress St. Helen's love of the form of the cross gave her a holy and inspired determination to discover it.  She inspired her son, Constantine, to change the world.
Saint Helen - Empress - devoted to the Cross
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD
 In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with Saint Helen. 
 
Emperor Constantine and Saint Helen
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Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD
Saint Helen
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Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD
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Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD
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Tuesday 29 December 2015

The Testimony of Conscience - Reading for 29th December, English Martyrs - Blessed William Howard - grandson of Saint Philip Howard the Earl of Arundel

THE TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE
Blessed William Howard - Layman
Arundel Castle
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Screenshot from 'Saint Philip Howard' DVD
He was a son of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and grandson of Saint Philip Howard, and he married Mary, sister of the last Baron Stafford, through whom he had his title, Viscount Stafford. During the Civil War he suffered for his loyalty to King Charles, but bore himself with the courage and constancy proper to his birth and faith, though he was of a litigious disposition. After the Restoration he lived in peace and happiness with his wife and children till his sixty-sixth year, when he was accused by Oates as being a party to the "plot". Knowing his own innocence, he made no change in his manner of life, and was arrested. After two years in the Tower he was brought to trial before the House of Lords.
Saint Philip Howard - William's grandfather - also held in the Tower
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Screenshot from 'Saint Philip Howard' DVD
For four days the prosecuting lawyers assailed him, producing some very scoundrelly witnesses, and the force of his integrity exposed the falsehood of his accusers. Nevertheless, he was condemned by thirty-five peers against thirty-one. Three weeks passed before his execution, and he gave much care to the making of his will; in it he movingly expressed his willingness to part from his "most deserving wife and most dutiful children" at God's call:
"Receive, therefore, most dear Jesus, this voluntary oblation."
He was recommended to wear a cloak on the way to the block, to which he assented, "Let", said he, "I shake from cold, but never from fear."
He was beheaded on Tower Hill on 29th December, St Thomas of Canterbury's day, 1680.
 
"Our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart ... we have conversed in this world." - 2 Cor. 1, 12.
 
Reading for 29th December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 
Our DVD about Blessed William Howard's grandfather
Saint Philip Howard - English Martyr
 
Saint Philip of Arundel:

St. Philip Howard was the Earl of Arundel in West Sussex where his beautiful castle stands today.  The castle is featured in this film.  He was also Queen Elizabeth I's cousin.  St. Philip became a Catholic during a troubled time in Elizabethan England.  He loved to pray and was able to keep his beloved dog with him in the Tower of London.  His shrine is in Arundel Cathedral and his life gives us an inspiring story of kindness and the fruits of the Holy Spirit.  St. Philip tells his story in his own words with beautiful contemplative music composed in a medieval and contemporary style.


In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this Elizabethan Saint.

Length and Format:
 
The film runs for 30 minutes and is available on Region Free DVD worldwide.


Monday 28 December 2015

This were enough... St Alexander Briant (2), Elizabethan English Missionary priest, Martyr, Reading for 28th December, Feast 1st December

THIS WERE ENOUGH...
Saint Alexander Briant (2) - Feast Day December 1st
In the Tower of London, St Alexander Briant carved a little cross
"I am a soldier of the Cross" - Saint Alexander Briant
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
After almost dying of thirst at the Counter, he was transferred to the Tower, where Norton, the rack-master, put him to torture with unexampled ferocity (Norton indeed was reprimanded and punished - lightly). Father Briant would neither confess where he had seen Persons, how he was maintained, where he had said Mass, nor whose confessions he had heard. He bore all unmoved, and with constant mind and pleasant countenance said the Miserere, desiring God to forgive his tormentors. Whereat an official said furiously, "What a thing is this! If a man were not settled in his religion, this were enough to convert him."
Saint Alexander Briant in the Tower
© 2015 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
He was torn upon the rack till his body was disjointed, and the next day racked yet more severely; but he resolved to die rather than hurt any living creature by word of his. Norton asked him whether the queen were supreme head of the Church in England or not? To this he said, "I am a Catholic, and I believe in this as a Catholic should do."
Saint Alexander Briant holds his small wooden cross during his trial
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Saint Alexander Briant is sentenced to death
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
 "Why," said Norton, "they say the pope is." "And so say I," answered Briant.
 
"They have torn holes in my hands and feet; I can count my bones one by one." - Ps. 21, 17.
Reading for 28th December
 
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
Saint Alexander Briant as a young man in Elizabethan Somerset, the son of Yeoman Farmers
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Saint Alexander Briant at Tyburn, executed with Saint Edmund Campion and Saint Ralph Sherwin in 1581
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Saint Alexander Briant DVD:

A touching and thought provoking journey with a very young and holy Catholic priest whose spiritual insight and wisdom of the Catholic Faith gave hope to the people of his day.  Although linked to St. Edmund Campion, his story stands alone, edged with the mystical.  From a young boy in Somerset to a young priest in the City of London, St. Alexander's story is filled with peace, encouragement and inspiration.




In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this young and holy priest.

Length and Format:
 
The film runs for 30 minutes and is available worldwide on Region Free DVD.
 


Sunday 27 December 2015

Shielding a Friend - Saint Alexander Briant (1), Elizabethan English missionary priest, Tyburn, Reading for 27th December

SHIELDING A FRIEND
Saint Alexander Briant
Father Robert Persons and Saint Alexander Briant - best friends
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Father Persons, being regarded as a most active and dangerous leader of Catholics, was ever an object of the pursuviants search; they never succeeded in his capture, but many other prizes were secured in his stead. Amongst these was taken Alexander Briant, a young man some twenty-five years of age, of gentle manners and a countenance of striking beauty. After three years at Oxford, he was reconciled and entered Douay, and in 1579 started as a priest on the English Mission. He laboured first in his own county, Somersetshire, where he brought back Persons' father to the Church, and thence went to London and took lodgings next to Persons, his closest and dearest friend.
Father Robert Persons and Saint Alexander Briant conceal Liturgical Vessels in their lodgings
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Saint Alexander Briant was arrested when his room was raided.
A chalice was discovered upon his person, used for celebrating the outlawed Catholic Mass
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
On his arrest he was confined to the Counter, and in that revolting prison, in order to extract from him Persons' whereabouts, he was for two days and nights entirely deprived of food and drink.
Saint Alexander Briant in prison uses his hat to catch water from the roof
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Screenshot from @saint Alexander Briant' DVD
Needles were pushed underneath Saint Alexander Briant's finger nails by the Elizabethan Government
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Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
 
He then contrived to get some stale cheese and hard bread with a pint of beer, but this brought on a maddening thirst. After six days in the Counter nothing had been gained from him, and sharper methods were resolved on.
 
"With thy comeliness and beauty set our, proceed prosperously and reign, because of truth, meekness and justice." - Ps. 44, 5-6.
 
Reading for 27th December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 

Saint Alexander Briant DVD:

A touching and thought provoking journey with a very young and holy Catholic priest whose spiritual insight and wisdom of the Catholic Faith gave hope to the people of his day.  Although linked to St. Edmund Campion, his story stands alone, edged with the mystical.  From a young boy in Somerset to a young priest in the City of London, St. Alexander's story is filled with peace, encouragement and inspiration.


In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this young and holy priest.

Length and Format:
 
The film runs for 30 minutes and is available worldwide on Region Free DVD.
 


Thursday 24 December 2015

A Mass-Less Christmas - a carol that was sung during the Penal Days of 1678

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From 'Reality Magazine' - December 2015 Issue

A Priest's Epitaph at Douay - George Muscot - Secular priest - Reading for 24th December

A PRIEST'S EPITAPH AT DOUAY
George Muscot - Secular Priest
Saint Henry Morse meeting with Saint John Southworth
Both priests were also reprieved on several occasions by King Charles I
after Queen Henrietta's intercession
but eventually executed for their priesthood
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
"After a great many labours endured in England for the Catholic faith, with great profit to souls, here rests the very Reverend George Muscot, an English priest. Having suffered the miseries of prison for above twenty years, he was condemned to death for that faith. The hurdle was waiting for him at the prison gate when, at the intercession of the Queen of England, he was reprieved by the King (Charles I). Promoted by the Supreme Pontiff to the presidency of the English College at Douay, by his government he gave new life to its discipline, and in four years of the hardest times increased its temporal estate by 20,000 florins. At length, being increased in merits but reduced by sufferings and infirmities, he gave his poor body to the earth, his rich soul to Heaven and the fragrance of his example to all priests. He died, aged sixty-five, in the fortieth year of his priesthood, the fifth of his presidency, on the eve of the Birthday of the Lord. On that same day formerly, he had been thrown into a filthy dungeon amongst felons and kept there three days, but his stay bore good fruit. Out of ten malefactors condemned to die, nine were reconciled to the Catholic faith. May he rest in peace."
 
"He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a good savour, for a memorial to make reconciliation for his people." - Ecclus. 45, 20.
 
Reading for 24th December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 
Reflection
Many of our English Martyrs were trained for the Catholic priesthood in Douay. Father George Muscot, although he was not martyred, suffered in prison in England for twenty years and almost received that blessed crown as the hurdle that would have dragged him to Tyburn awaited him at the prison gates. His sufferings and work for the Catholic Faith and for the English missionary priests bore much fruit for souls. Like Father Robert Persons and Father John Gerard, Father George Muscot can be remembered with the English Martyrs as great champions for the Catholic Faith in England.
 
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Wednesday 23 December 2015

In God's Hands - Saint Ralph Sherwin - Elizabethan Missionary priest - Reading for 23rd December, Feast day 1st December

IN GOD'S HANDS
Saint Ralph Sherwin
 

From a letter after his condemnation:
"Truth it is, I hoped ere this, casting off this body of death, to have kissed the glorified wounds of my sweet Saviour, sitting in the throne of His Father's own glory, which desire hath so quieted my mind that neither the sharpness of death much terrified me nor the shortness of life much troubled me. My sins are great, I confess, but I flee to God's mercy; my negligences are without number, I grant, but I appeal to my Redeemer's clemency: I have no boldness but in His blood; His bitter passion is my only consolation.
 
Saint Alexander Briant, executed with Saint Ralph Sherwin, had a deep devotion
to the Passion of Christ and experienced the stigmata while he was racked in the Tower
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
 
It is comfortable that the prophet hath recorded that 'He hath written us in his hands'. Oh! that He would vouchsafe to write Himself in our hearts; how joyful would we then appear before the tribunal seat of His Father's glory: the dignity whereof, when I think of it, my flesh quaketh, not sustaining, by reason of mortal infirmity, the presence of my Creator's majesty. Our Lord perfect us to that end whereunto we were created, that, leaving this world, we may live in Him and of Him, world without end. It is thought that on Monday or Tuesday next we shall suffer; God grant us humility that we, following in His footsteps, may obtain the victory."
 
"Behold, I have graven thee in my hands." - Isa. 49, 16
 
Reading for 23rd December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 
Saint Alexander Briant prays for Saint Ralph Sherwin and Saint Edmund Campion
at Tyburn Gallows - 1st December 1581
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
 
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Tuesday 22 December 2015

Lying Witnesses - Saint Edmund Campion (2), Jesuit, Elizabethan missionary martyr, Tyburn - reading for 22nd December, feast day 1st December

LYING WITNESSES
Saint Edmund Campion (2)
Saint Edmund Campion at his trial
© 2008 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'God's Champion - Saint Edmund Campion' DVD
To the jury at his trial:
"In common matters we often see witnesses impeached, and if at any time their credit be little, it ought then to be less when they swear against life. Call, I pray you, to your remembrance how faintly some have deposed, how coldly others, how untruly the rest; especially two who have testified most. What truth may you expect from their mouths? The one hath confessed himself a murderer, the other well known as a detestable atheist, a profane heathen - a destroyer of two men already.
Saint Alexander Briant, also tried and executed with Campion
© 2012 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Alexander Briant' DVD
On your consciences, would you believe them? - they that have betrayed both God and man, nay, that have nothing left to swear by, neither religion nor honesty? Though you would believe them, can you? I know your wisdom is greater, your consciences up-righter: esteem them as they be. Examine the other two, you shall find neither of them precisely to affirm that we, or any of us, have practised aught that might be prejudicial to this state or dangerous to this commonwealth. God give you grace to weigh our causes aright, and have respect to your own consciences; and so I will keep the jury no longer. I commit the rest to God, and our convictions to your good discretion."
 
"Many bore false witness against him, and their evidences were not agreeing." - Matt 14, 46.
 
Reading for 22nd December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory.
 
 
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Monday 21 December 2015

His Passion Foreseen - Saint Edmund Campion (1) Reading for 21st December (Feast day 1st December), Tyburn Elizabethan Missionary Martyr

HIS PASSION FORESEEN
Saint Edmund Campion - Jesuit (1)
Saint Edmund Campion arrives in England
© 2008 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Edmund Campion' DVD
In December 1579 Dr Allen wrote to Campion:
"My father, brother, son, Edmund Campion, for to you I must use every expression of the tenderest ties of love: since the general of your order (and he, I take it, speaks to you for Christ himself) calls you from Prague to Rome, and thence to our own England; and since your brethren after the flesh call you - I, who am so closely connected with them, with you and with our common country, both in the world and in the Lord, must not keep silence, when I should be first to desire you, to call you, to cry to you. Make all haste to come, my dearest Campion."
On receiving the command, he heard it in silence, blushed, and said, "Indeed, the fathers seem to
 suspect something about me. I hope their suspicions may be true. God's will be done, not mine."
Saint Edmund Campion travels England
© 2008 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Edmund Campion' DVD
The suspicions to which Campion referred had already found vent: the night before, Father James Gall, from Silesia, reputed to have visions, wrote over Edmund's cell,
"P. Edmundus Campianis Martyr."
 The writer was punished for his infringement of discipline, but he declared that he felt obliged to do it. Another father had previously painted a garland of flowers on the wall of Campion's room, above where his head rested.
 
"They shall condemn him to death." - Matt. 20, 18
 
Reading for 21st December
Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 
God’s Champion – St. Edmund Campion DVD:
 

A shorter version of our long film about St. Edmund Campion with additional focus on his influence upon the Earl of Arundel, a fellow Catholic convert.  Prayerful and insightful.


In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this inspiring Elizabethan Saint.
 

Length and Format:
 
The film runs for 30 minutes and is available on Region Free DVD worldwide.
 
 


Sunday 20 December 2015

Rescuing a Captive - Saint Margaret Ward, Elizabethan, English Martyr, Tyburn

RESCUING A CAPTIVE
Saint Margaret Ward - Laywoman
Saint Margaret Ward visits Father William Watson
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Margaret Ward' DVD
WILLIAM WATSON, a priest who had conformed and repented of it, was confined in Bridewell; Margaret Ward, from Cheshire, determined to engineer his escape, with the help of a Thames waterman (Blessed John Roche). Disguised and carrying a basket of provisions, she for a month visited the prison, being always closely searched. At length she managed to smuggle in a rope, by means of which Watson escaped, but hurt himself badly in doing so, and let the rope hanging from the window of his prison.
Saint Margaret enlists the help of Blessed John Roche
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Margaret Ward' DVD
Margaret, being his only visitor, was therefore apprehended, hung up by her hands, and cruelly beaten. At her trial she admitted her part in the prisoner's escape, and rejoiced "in having delivered an innocent lamb from the hands of bloody wolves." Offered pardon if she would go to church, she refused, and was executed, showing to the end great constancy, at Tyburn on 30th August 1588; John Roche suffered at the same time, and others who have been mentioned.
 
"I was in prison and you came to Me." - Matt. 25, 36.
 
Taken from The Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales
by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory
 
 
 
Saint Margaret Ward DVD:


Saint Margaret Ward was so moved by the plight of Catholic priests in England that she brought comfort and encouragement to a Fr. Watson in an Elizabethan London prison at the risk of her own life.  In a setting of beauty and reflection despite a climate of hostility and troubles, St. Margaret's story unfolds amidst prayer, history and faith.


In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with Saint Margaret Ward. Closing the distance of time between Elizabethan England and the present day, encounter this inspiring saint and recognise how she had the same faith and desires during a troubled society. You will see and feel the beauty of the saint as Saint Margaret Ward tells her own story.
 
Length and Format:
 
The Film runs for 30 minutes and is available on Region Free DVD worldwide.



Saint Ursula - A pilgrimage with an early British Saint

SAINT URSULA
Early British Saint - Virgin - Martyr
 

Saint Ursula
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Ursula' DVD
In 2014 we enjoyed making a film about Saint Ursula, one of our early British Saints. Saint Ursula has a very inspiring and interesting story - one of prayerful reflection, history and Catholic spirituality. She was born in Great Britain of Christian parents; her father, Maurus, was a king and Ursula a princess. Ursula was sought in marriage by a young pagan prince, but had already vowed her life and her heart to Jesus Christ. However, Saint Ursula was visited by an angel in dream who bade her evangelise the prince and undertake a pilgrimage with many of her maidens.
During the pilgrimage Saint Ursula met the Holy Father, and many priests and Bishops joined her in the journey.  They edified many by their witness of prayer, song and charity.
The Huns, who at that time were ravaging Europe, saw the ships, and made ready to pillage them and inflict on Ursula and her companions a dishonour more dreaded by them than death. Ursula attempted to convert the Huns which enraged them further. Commanded by Ursula, the maidens offered their lives in sacrifice for the Catholic Faith.
Saint Ursula
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Ursula' DVD
The prince of the Huns, struck by Ursula's beauty, spared her at first; he tried to console her for the death of her companions and sought to marry her. When she did not assent he shot her with an arrow, and this consecrated virgin fell with the others. Ursula was considered the leader of the eleven thousand brought by the Romans from Great Britain. Many churches have relics of this army of martyrs, but no region is more richly endowed than that of Cologne, since it is to that city that the Christians of the region devotedly carried the mortal remains of the martyrs.
Saint Ursula and the Arrow
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Ursula' DVD
In the seventh century a magnificent church rose over their tomb and the whose walls served as reliquaries. This holy cemetery has been rendered illustrious by many miracles. Pilgrims and especially young girls have come from all over Europe, to beg protection for their virginity from Saint Ursula and her companions. The arrow which pierced Saint Ursula is still conserved there.
 
The many relics of the Martyrs in Cologne
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Ursula' DVD
 
 
 
St. Ursula DVD
 
A beautiful Catholic princess goes on a holy voyage of discovery, devotion and faith from England to the continent, like one of the first Apostles, Ursula became a bright light in history showing the devotion, Catholic spirituality, character and friendship of the people of her time.  Step back into the 4th century and be inspired.


In 2007 Mary’s Dowry productions created a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints. Mary’s Dowry Productions recreates stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration, and original contemplative music that touches your spirit to draw you into a spiritual encounter with the saint. Watch with your spiritual eye, listen with your spiritual ear. Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints. Using your spiritual senses we invite you to shut out the world, sit prayerfully and peacefully and go on a journey of faith, history and prayer with this inspiring Romano-British princess.  

 Length and Format:
 
The film runs for 27 minutes and is available on Region Free DVD worldwide.