Saint Anne Line film update

Our film about saint Anne Line, completed in 2010, in available on DVD through Mary's Dowry Productions. 

Saint Anne Line was an Elizabethan woman whose great love for the Catholic faith in England shone out in her kind and prayerful spirit. She loved to assist priests and looked after safe houses for them as they travelled England during the troubled times after the reformation.

Saint Anne Line lived a live of prayer and charity, being a light of joy and spiritual love for all who met her. She joyfully accepted the Will of God in every moment of her life and gave a beautiful witness of love for God and her friends that is especially relevant in our own days.

Our film about Saint Anne Line is available worldwide in all region formats on DVD:

www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

 

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.

 

Saint Anne Line (c.1563 – 27 February 1601) was an English Catholic martyr. After losing her husband she became very active in sheltering clandestine Catholic priests, which was illegal in the reign of Elizabeth I. Finally arrested, she was condemned to death and executed for harbouring a priest. Considered as a martyr by the Catholic Church she was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Liturgically she is commemorated on 27 February.

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Jesuits, Birettas, Priest Holes and St. Nicholas Owen

The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogue.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment. Ignatius's plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by a bull containing the "Formula of the Institute".

Saint Nicholas Owen measures the wall inside a house in order
to built his ingenious priest hole.
Screenshot from 'St. Nicholas Owen'
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

In England, during the troubled days following the reformation, the Jesuits played a very important part in bringing the outlawed sacraments to the English people.
Many young English men travelled abroad to train as priests and Jesuits and return to England to bring the Gospel back to the people.
Saint Nicholas Owen was a Jesuit layman who travelled with the Jesuits constructing secret rooms and priest holes up and down England.

St. Henry Garnets and the Jesuits hide Nicholas Owen before
they too conceal themselves in priest holes as the
house is raided in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot
Screenshot from 'St. Nicholas Owen'
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

St. Nicholas Owen's fascinating, spiritual and evangelical life of priest hole making is looked at in this DVD available through our online shop: www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/
 

 Fr. Henry Garnett, Superior to the Jesuits in England until his capture and execution during the reign of King James I was arrested with St. Nicholas Owen.

 The Jesuits hid in one of his priest holes in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.

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 English Saint. 

St. Swithun Wells - Martyr for priests

There are few resources available for this inspiring Catholic layman, who was hanged with young St. Fr. Edmund Gennings in 1591. In 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions filmed for a DVD St. Swithun Wells who was executed for his part in hiding many hunted priests in Elizabethan England. The DVD is available through www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

Saint Swithun Wells with his wife Alice
Screenshot from 'The Secret Mass Room'
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

Saint Swithun Wells travelled the continent, often linked with the patron of playwright William Shakespeare, before returning to England and marrying his devout Catholic wife Alice. His own love of prayer and the Catholic faith was evident to those who knew him.

Saint Swithun Wells returns home to find the secret Mass room
in his house abandoned and in disarray after a raid by priest hunter
Richard Topcliffe who apprehend his wife, servants and the priests
he was sheltering.
Screenshot from 'The Secret Mass Room'
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

 Keen to assist priests during the troubled times of Elizabethan England, Saint Swithun built a secret Mass room in his London home where priests could celebrate Mass for his friends and neighbours. Saint Swithun's kind, jovial nature was evident in his dealings with all, even those who were hostile towards the outlawed Catholic Faith.

Saint Swithun is taken from his wife Alice to go to trial.
Alice later died in prison for the Catholic Faith
Screenshot from 'The Secret Mass Room'
© Mary's Dowry Productions

When he returned one morning to find the Secret Mass room in disarray, his daughter told him that the infamous priest hunter Richard Topcliffe had arrested Alice, their servants and the priests who were celebrating Mass. Saint Swithun arrived at the prison and was promptly arrested too.
Even in the face of trials, Saint Swithun was known to keep a peaceful and positive attitude. He has left us an inspiring example that especially shines out in his love for priests.

Saint Swithun Wells prays for Saint Edmund Gennings as he
awaits his own execution
Screenshot from 'The Secret Mass Room'
© Mary's Dowry Productions 2010

 

Our DVD was filmed over the course of two days specifically in the barn and courtyard attached to our parish church, where parishioners and friends prayerfully and silently portrayed certain moments from Saint Swithun Wells' story. We also filmed external scenes and beautiful scenery at Parham Park and Gardens as well as on the Sussex South Downs. The film comes together with original music that aids contemplation and a narrative told in Saint Swithun Wells' own words.

We seek to offer a prayerful way in which to quietly encounter this inspiring English Saint.

 

Saint Swithun Wells and his wife Alice in the Tower of London
© Mary's Dowry Productions 2010

 

 "Hurry up please, Mr. Topcliffe. Are you not ashamed to make a poor old man stand in his shirt in the cold? God pardon you and make you of a Saul a Paul, of a bloody persecutor one of the Catholic Church's children. By your malice I am thus to be executed, but you have done me the greatest benefit that ever I could have had. I heartily forgive you." - Last words of St. Swithun Wells at the gallows - 1591.

Our DVD is available worldwide in all region formats:
www.marysdowryproductions.org

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.

St. Anne Line film: Prison

Saint Anne Line (c.1563 – 27 February 1601) was an English Catholic martyr. After losing her husband she became very active in sheltering clandestine Catholic priests, which was illegal in the reign of Elizabeth I. Finally arrested, she was condemned to death and executed for harbouring a priest. Considered as a martyr by the Catholic Church she was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Liturgically she is commemorated on 27 February.

Saint Anne Line in prison
Screenshot from Mary's Dowry Productions DVD
'Saint Anne Line - English Martyr'
© 2010

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.

On location at the Weald and Downland Museum
Screenshot from Saint Anne Line
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
Showing Saint Anne Line caring for safe houses

Available on DVD through www.marysdowryproductions.org.shop/

St. Anne Line filming - Fr. Thompson imprisoned and executed

 

Saint Anne Line, Reformation Martyr, Catholic recusant, hanged at Tyburn:
Fr. Thompson was a Catholic priest imprisoned and executed at Tyburn. He had been arrested with St. Anne Line's brother and husband and was killed by law for being a Catholic priest. He refused to renounce the Catholic Faith even though he knew that his sentence was to be hung, drawn and quartered on the Triple Gallows at Tyburn.



Screenshot from 'Saint Anne Line' DVD
Mary's Dowry Productions
 

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.
A film about English Martyr St. Anne Line is available on DVD worldwide through Mary's Dowry Productions offers the viewer a window into the life of Saint Anne Line and those who helped defend the Faith in Elizabethan England.
www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

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Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (24 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in the now officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason on account of his being a priest in England, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast is celebrated on 1 December.

“In condemning us, you condemn all your own ancestors - all the ancient priests, bishops and kings - all that was once the glory of England”.

Screenshot of St. Edmund Campion
Mary's Dowry Productions
© 2008

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.

"Saint Edmund Campion" is available worldwide from Mary's Dowry Productions online shop.
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Mary's Dowry Productions - St. Anne Line, English Martyr, Saint of Tyburn, hanged in London

Mary's Dowry Productions remembers Saint Anne Line especially on her feast day as she was hanged at Tyburn on the Tyburn Gallows, also called the Triple Gallows or the Tyburn Tree on 27th February 1601.

Saint Anne Line was a young Elizabethan woman who loved God and those around her. She particularly loved priests, the Mass and prayer. Saint Anne Line lost her husband Roger when he was exiled abroad for his Catholic Faith. She dedicated her life to caring for secret safe houses in England where priests could rest on their missions.
Saint Anne Line also arranged for the outlawed Catholic Mass to be offered during the troubled times in Elizabethan England. She was a woman of deep prayer and kindness and all who knew her were touched by her love of God.

Screenshot from 'St. Anne Line' by Mary's Dowry Productions
© 2010

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.

www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

New KINGDOMS music album release, music from Ancient England, Christian contemporary fusion, Catholic music, CDs

From Mary's Dowry Productions comes a new music album release.

KINGDOMS

Beautiful, original music composed by Bernadette Bevans as part of a series of original DVDs.
The tracks are inspired by ancient imagery fused with the contemporary.
The music engages the spiritual senses and is perfect for meditation and background atmosphere.

Ten original musical tracks create absorbing atmospheres that will take the listener upon journeys into Ancient England and places of mystery and legend.

 

The album is now available from our online shop at:

www.marysdowryproducions.org

 

Bernadette writes all of the original music for our Catholic films about the lives of our wonderful Saints and Martyrs.

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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.

Including safe houses, Fr. John Gerard, .

Available through Mary's Dowry Productions.

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Saint Anne Line prepares a secret room for Mass in Elizabethan England
© 2010 - Mary's Dowry Productions

English Martyr Keywords:

The English Martyrs, the Tyburn Tree, Tyburn gallows, Tower of London, recusant Catholic, Old Bailey, Saint Anne Line, Saint Edmund Campion, Ten Reasons, recusants, hurdle, rack, Popish plot, Society of Jesus, English Mission, Catholic Martyrs, Tyborn, John Gerard, Medieval taverns, secret Mass, relics, medieval prison, Little Ease, Beast Market, stocks, beheading, Parliament, Queen Elizabeth I, manacles, Faith, fleas, rats, Topcliffe, ravens, chopping block, beheading axe, vestments, hidden room, Samuel Pepys, the plague, Henry Morse, city gates, castle walls, 40 Martyrs, traitor’s gate, persecution, Tudor Monarchy, Douai, Rheims, heroic sacrifice, Queen Elizabeth I, Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer, cauldron, pikes, betrayal, priest hunters, heretics, priest catchers, Papal Bull, Statue 27 Elizabeth, Marian priests, Henry VIII, trial, Westminster, fines, rosary, devotional candles, St. Margaret Clitherow, Act of Supremacy, Act of Succession, execution, Jesuits, birettas, Treason, Plots, noose, the Gunpowder Plot, the counter-reformation, Catholic England, hanged, drawn and quartered, priest at the gallows, medieval torture, The English Reformation, Catholics until the Emancipation, English Martyrs, the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, Protestant Reformation, Bridewell, Dissolution of the Monasteries, London bridge, Scavenger’s Daughter, Judas Chair, thumbscrews, martyrdom, Bell Tower, Eucharist, Catholic Sacraments, hangman, priest holes, safe houses

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Saint Nicholas Owen the priest hole maker by Mary's Dowry Productions

Mary's Dowry Productions.

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.
Saint Nicholas Owen, S.J., (c. 1562 – 1/2 March 1606) was a Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. After his final arrest, he was tortured to death by prison authorities in the Tower of London. He is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

Our DVD about Saint Nicholas Owen is told in his own words. Although it is full of information the film was produced from a spiritual aspect. The music is an original composition that lifts the journey and offers a contemplative, absorbing and atmospheric encounter with Saint Nicholas Owen in the context of history and faith.

Screenshot from 'St. Nicholas Owen: The Priest Hole Maker'
Produced by Mary's Dowry Productions
© 2010

Available on DVD worldwide, all region formats:
www.marysdowryproductions.org


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St. Margaret Clitherow, film, English Martyr, Pearl of York, Mary's Dowry Productions, EWTN, DVD, Saint

Mary's Dowry Productions is pleased to be able to offer our new film on Saint Margaret Clitherow which is now available to buy from our Online Shop.
Visit our website for information and details about this original production.
www.marysdowryproductions.org

The DVD runs for 55 minutes

Saint Margaret Clitherow:
In the historical context of Saint Margaret's time in history, the spiritual aspects of her faith bore fruit in her simple daily tasks, fulfilled in her intention of serving her fellow York citizens, sheltering hunted priests and making sure that her children received a proper Catholic education in a climate of Elizabethan hostility.  Her conflict with the Earl of Huntington, Queen Elizabeth I's cousin, culminated in a poignant and moving witness for the Catholic Church in England.  She is held up and remembered inspiringly for Christians today. 

Screenshot from 'St. Margaret Clitherow'
Showing the Butcher's shop at The Shambles in Elizabethan York.
© 2009 Mary's Dowry Productions

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 Clitherow. Closing the distance of time between Elizabethan England and the present day, encounter this inspiring young wife and mother. 

Length and Format: 

The film runs for one hour and is available on Region Free DVD worldwide.

Saint Margaret Clitherow sews her own shroud.
Screenshot from 'St. Margaret Clitherow
© 2009 Mary's Dowry Productions

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Screenshot from 'St. Margaret Clitherow' by Mary's Dowry Productions
© 2009

Her feast day is celebrated on 30 August, which she shares with fellow female martyrs St. Anne Line and St. Margaret Ward.

A number of schools in England are named after Margaret Clitherow, including schools at Bracknell, Brixham, Manchester, Nottingham, Thamesmead SE28, Brent, London NW10 and Tonbridge. The Roman Catholic primary school in Nottingham's Bestwood estate is named after Clitherow. In the United States, St Margaret of York Church and School in Loveland, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, is also named after her. Another school named after her is St. Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School, located next to Stevenage Borough Football Club.
She is also the patroness of the Catholic Women's League, an organisation of Catholic women founded in 1906, with small groups (known as branches) and sections (groupings of branches, usually along diocesan lines) across the world. St Margaret is also a co-patroness of the Latin Mass Society, who organise an annual pilgrimage to York in her honour every year. A group of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, Sacred Heart in Hindsford, St Richard's in Atherton, Holy Family in Boothstown, St Ambrose Barlow in Astley, St Gabriel's, Higher Folds in Leigh are now united as a single community with St Margaret Clitherow as its patron.
The English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poem honouring "God's daughter Margaret Clitheroe." The poem, entitled "Margaret Clitheroe" was among fragments and unfinished poems of Hopkins discovered after his death and is a tribute to the woman, to her faith and courage, and to the manner of her death.   
 

 

 

The Primary Series New Saints DVD Release

The Primary Series: Volume One

Seven mini movies are presented on one DVD, telling the lives of Saints and Martyrs for children.

The first in the series presents the lives of seven English Martyrs with footage of wildlife and nature, historical imagery, artwork and narrative.



Enjoy learning about the lives of:

Saint Philip Howard
Saint Edmund Campion
Saint Anne Line
Saint Luke Kirby
Saint Robert Southwell
Saint Margaret Clitherow
Saint John Almond

For personal reflection and education, or ideal as a resource for use in schools, Holy Communion Classes and families, these mini-movies are presented in an easy-to-use and enjoyable format.

(In telling the lives of these Martyrs, their deaths for the Catholic faith in Medieval England is mentioned.)

Find out more about this DVD at http://www.marysdowryproductions.org/

This DVD is available to buy from Mary's Dowry Productions Online Shop, accessible from our website.

LANDS - Medieval Music Album

"Lands" was composed over a period of about three years and is part of a series of music albums including "Dreams", "Journeys", "Realms", "Recollections", "Worlds" and soon to be launched "Kingdoms". Originally the CD was composed on a Clavinova system but has since been re-worked using VST sampled sounds. Combining various instruments such as the piano, recorders, frame drums, Gothic choirs and strings, as well as sound effects, the thirteen tracks touch upon the Medieval sound of England and are part of a reflective series of music written several years ago and compiled onto music CD.

The Blurb:

The album LANDS is an assemblage of imaginative pieces. Each tune takes you into a land of visual imagery. As you listen, let yourself be taken through winding grasslands, past rivers, across deserts, on top of mountains. Visit new realms where kings once feasted and battles were fought, but all that remains is the moving memory of the history that once was. Travel to Egypt in the Egyptian themed 'The Kingdom of Sands' where the native Oud gently accompanies playful yet haunting flutes. Hold back the tears as you explore the deserted streets of the 'Forgotten Realm of Rhyme' as the sweet and mystical melody of the piano tells its own story. This album will gently relax and inspire you to meditate while escaping into new lands. The perfect mingling of instruments, from Spanish Guitar, flute, bassoon, clarinet, piano, drum and panflute contrast perfectly touching on the medieval and the mysterious. Tender Gothic choir and charming nature sounds are certain to arouse the spirit within.

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In fulfilment of a vow made at the time of the peasant's Revolt of 1381, King Richard II solemnly renewed the offering of England to Mary as her Dowry. This was done in Westminster Abbey near the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, who traditionally first offered England to Mary and in whose reign Our Lady appeared in 1061. The king declared in latin:

"Dos tua Virgo pia, haec est."

(This is your Dowry, Holy Virgin.)

These words were on a picture once at the English College in Rome, but sadly destroyed, which depicted King Richard II and Queen Ann his consort, kneeling before Our Lady, the King holding a patten with the above words.

Our Lady of Walsingham by Mary's Dowry Productions
© 2011
A film that looks at 1000 years of devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham

That mysterious treasure of the National Gallery, the Wilton Diptych, is best explained as being commissioned by King Richard to commemorate his solemn rededication in 1381.

Right side of the Wilton Diptych

(We love the Wilton Diptych and chose it as the logo for

Mary's Dowry Productions)

Left Side of the Wilton Diptych.

In 1251 Our Lady appeared in Aylesford to St. Simon stock and entrusted to him the Brown Scapular. (We love St. Simon Stock and the Brown Scapular and have including a short film about him in our DVD 'Saints of England: Volume One' so that people can have a brief introduction to his life as his mission in England and the world is important)

In 1893 Cardinal Vaughan at the request of Pope Leo XIII consecrated England and Wales to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

In 1917 and 1918 Cardinal Bourne 3 times reconsecrated England and Wales to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

On August 19th 1934 Cardinal Bourne transferred the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from King's Lynn to the Slipper Chapel and led the Bishops of England and Wales in a Pilgrimage of Reparation for the Reformation and Act of Supremacy, along with 10,000 pilgrims.

In 1948 Cardinal Griffin led a pilgimage of reparation for the evils of World War II. Fourteen crosses were carried to Walsingham from all parts of England and today form the Stations of the Cross at the Shrine. It was during this pilgimage that the Cardinal fulfilled the request of Our Lady of Fatima and consecrated England and Wales publically to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

On August 15th 1954 Archbishop O'Hara, the Apostolic Delegate, crowned the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham in the name of Pope Pius XII.

In 1982 Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Britain, celebrated Mass in Wembley Stadium. The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham was placed upon the altar during Mass at the Pope's personal request. The presence of the statue underlined the importance of Walsingham in the life of the Catholic Church in England.

Consecration of the Nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has been an important grace and means of intercession for England and Wales as the Dowry of Mary.

 

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 the Saints, Martyrs and Catholic heritage of England.

Catholic Films Coming 2010: Saint Anne Line, English Martyr, Mary's Dowry Productions

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.

Available on DVD is our film about the life of Saint Anne Line, an English Martyr.

For more information of Original Catholic film productions of the lives of English saints and martyrs visit www.marysdowryproductions.org

New Catholic Films: Saint Nicholas Owen the Priest Hole Maker, 2010, Catholic DVD, EWTN, Mary's Dowry Productions,

A DVD about the life of Saint Nicholas Owen: the priest hole maker, was completed in 2010 and is available to purchase through Mary's Dowry Productions online shop:
www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

Screenshot from 'St. Nicholas Owen - the Priest Hole Maker'
by Mary's Dowry Productions © 2010

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.



 

The Beheading of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Tudor, English Martyr, DVD, Mary's Dowry Productions

Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, born Margaret of York & Clarence (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was an English peeress. She was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, who was the brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III. She was one of two women in sixteenth-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband. One of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, who was the son of her cousin Elizabeth of York. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886.

 

 

Margaret was a middle-aged noblewoman charged to act as governess and guardian to Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, when the princess was awarded her own household in the Welsh marches. Lady Salisbury later earned the King's enmity as the mother of Reginald Pole, who declined his offer of an appointment to a senior position in the Church of England but reluctantly accepted the rank of cardinal from the Pope. With Cardinal Pole beyond his reach Henry took vengeance against his family by having Lady Salisbury, another of her sons and her young grandson executed. Historically this was widely seen as an atrocious act by Henry against an elderly woman who was innocent of any crime.

 

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 Tudor woman.

 

Available worldwide on DVD, all region formats:

www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

Saint Edmund Campion FILM, Mary's Dowry Productions, Brag, Ten Reasons, Elizabethan, Jesuit

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.

 

 

Available worldwide on DVD through
www.marysdowryproductions.org.

Also we remember Saint Ralph Sherwin and Saint Alexander Briant who were executed with Saint Edmund Campion over 400 years ago.

Saint Edmund Campion was a Jesuit priest and English Martyr. His love for England, the Catholic Church and the Mass saw him travel the country during a troubled time in English history, sharing the Faith with kindness, wisdom and joy. All who met him were struck by his words and holiness. Saint Edmund wrote many beautiful things about the Catholic Faith which are quoted throughout our film Our film is a spiritual encounter with the faith and devotion of Saint Edmund Campion and while it is full of information and history it is first and foremost about Saint Edmund Campion.

Saint Hugh of Lincoln, English Saints, Catholic DVDs, Catechetical Confirmation resources

Saint Hugh of Lincoln is just one of the Saints featured in this DVD from Mary's Dowry Productions.
As part of our Well Known Saints DVD series we thought we would focus in on English saints and Martyrs and released "Saints of England: Volume One" onto DVD in October 2009.
AVAILABLE now worldwide through:
www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

The DVD contains seven mini movies on Saints of England.
Their stories are told and brought to life through original uplifting music, narration, pictures, video and prayers. Learn about the lives of:

Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Saint Hilda
Saint Simon Stock
Saint Stephen Harding
Saint Ambrose Barlow
Saint Anne Line
and Saint Elphege


These films are great for all ages and particularly for use in family, parishes and youth groups, especially confirmation classes. A real encounter with the individual saints is guaranteed and each story is varied, from medieval times of persecution and martyrdom in the lives of Saint Anne Line and Saint Ambrose Barlow to Viking invaders in the life of St. Elphege all the way to the pleasant and joyful tale of Saint Simon Stock establishing the brown scapular devotion in England in the 1200s.

 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 these inspiring Saints.

Saints of England, New Catholic DVD Release, Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Saint Ambrose Barlow, Simon Stock, Hilda, Stephen Harding, Elphege, Anne Line

A new DVD from Mary's Dowry Productions "Saints of England: Volume One".
This DVD focuses on the lives of Seven Saints of England. Volume One tells the stories of:

Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Saint Ambrose Barlow
Saint Simon Stock
Saint Hilda
Saint Stephen Harding
Saint Elphege
and Saint Anne Line


Each DVD contains seven movies of 5 minutes, portraying the stories of each of the saints using original music, picture, video and narration. Great for learning about the lives of the saints, choosing a patron, devotional, or simply to enjoy. Excellent as a resource for Catechesis and Confirmation.

AVAILABLE ON DVD through

www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

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 these inspiring Saints.