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We produce films especially on the lives of our English Saints and English Martyrs.

Many of our films are now available to watch on our Youtube channel.

We like to have our favourite films, movies and series on DVD in our own home, so we make our original films on the lives of the Saints and Martyrs available on DVD for people who like to have collections for their home, parishes and schools too.

DVDs are especially useful for those who do not use the internet.

All proceeds from the sales of our DVDs and CDs go straight back into film production, costumes and props and allow us to make more films on these inspiring heavenly heroes.

 

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DVDs are a wonderful way to share the lives of the Saints and English Martyrs with others.

Show them in your parish.

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Spread the stories of the Saints and English Martyrs, shining examples from our history especially relevant today.

We have also produced DVDs on the lives of well known Saints too.

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A Cry for Relief - by William Blundell, 1600, Catholics in England during Penal times, poems and prayers

A CRY FOR RELIEF

 

BY WILLIAM BLUNDELL

(A 17TH CENTURY CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN)

1600

 

We Catholics, tormented sore

With heresy's foul railing tongue,

With prisons, tortures, loss of goods,

Of land, yea, lives, even thieves among,

Do crave, with heart surcharged with grief,

Of thee, sweet Jesu, some relief.

 

We crave relief in this distress,

We seek some ease of this annoy;

Yet are we well content with all,

So thee in end we may enjoy;

Ourselves to thee we do resign -

Relieve us, Lord, our cause is thine.

 

Our cause is thine, and thine we are,

Who from thy truth refuse to slide;

Our faith thy truth, true faith the cause

For which these garboyles (troubles) we abide;

True faith, I say, as plain appears

To all who shut not eyes and ears.

 

To all who shut not eyes and ears

'Gainst fathers, scriptures, Church, and thee,

Who built thy Church, as doctors all

With scriptures plainly do agree,

Not, soon to fall, upon the sand,

But on a Rock still sure to stand.

 

Still sure to stand, yea, on a hill,

For all her friends and foes to see,

Her friends to foster and defend,

Her foes to vanquish gloriously;

From age to age this hath she done,

Thus shall she do in time to come.

 

In time to come, as heretofore,

Most certainly she shall prevail

'Gainst all the force and sleighty wiles,

Wherewith hell-gates may her assail;

Who shoot against this brazen wall

With their fond bolts themselves with gall.

 

Themselves with gall they will be sure,

Who strive to ruinate thy house,

And to withdraw thy children dear

From soft lap of thy dearest spouse,

Thy children whom, with streams of blood,

Thou bought, sweet Lord, upon the rood.

 

Upon the rood thou bought our souls

With price more worth than all thou bought,

Yet doth the fiend our foes so blind,

Both souls and price they set at naught;

They reckon not enough their ill,

Except with theirs our souls they spill.

 

Our souls to spill they think full soon

Or else our bodies to enthrall;

Or, at the least, to wantful state,

Through hard pursuits, to bring us all;

Come quickly, therefore, Lord Jesus,

And judge this cause 'twixt them and us.

 

Give judgement, Lord, 'twixt them and us,

The balance yet let pity hold:

Let mercy measure their offence,

And grace reduce them to thy fold,

That we, all children of thy spouse,

May live as brethren in thy house.

 

Written in 1600 during Penal Times, by William Blundell, a Catholic gentleman.

 

For films about the lives of the English Martyrs on DVD:

www.marysdowryproductions.org

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About Mary's Dowry Productions, from an Article written for Arundel Cathedral Proclaimer, April 2016, Catholic films, DVDs, productions, Howard

About Mary’s Dowry Productions

By Bernadette Bevans

Co-Founder and Co-Director

 

Mary’s Dowry Productions is named for Our Lady.

Tradition tells us that England was first consecrated to the Blessed Virgin as Her Dowry by Saint Edward the Confessor and that England has always held a special place in Mary’s heart.

 In 2007 my sister Emily and I felt so inspired by the lives of the saints, particularly our English saints and martyrs, that we wished to present these stories in a way that would inspire others too. I had a background in music composition and Emily in media and film.

Having grown up in A&B Diocese and living not far from Arundel, we had visited the Cathedral many times for events such as Confirmation but it struck us that we did not know a great deal about Saint Philip Howard whose tomb is there.

 We decided we would create a film on his life which would be inspiring and uplifting and help people to encounter this great saint.

 

Saint Philip Howard of Arundel
Available on DVD
www.marysdowryproductions.co.uk

We use the format of DVD so that anybody can pop a DVD in their player and encounter a saints’ life immediately. Using the simple means that were available to us at the time has led to the creation of a new form of film media to present the lives of the saints.

We try to recreate stunning silent visuals, informative, devotional narration and original contemplative music that touches the spirit and draws the viewer into a spiritual encounter with the saint.

Screenshot from 'Saint Ethedlreda: Abbess of Ely' DVD
Filmed on location at Nymans, Sussex

We wanted to achieve more than just films, but spiritual films that really capture the atmosphere and essence of an individual saint and not just information about them. 

Our DVD on St. Philip Howard helped us to learn about this saint too and has led us to produce films on other English Martyrs such as St. Edmund Campion, St. Margaret Clitherow; Anglo-Saxon saints like St. Cuthman of Steyning, St. Etheldreda; and popular saints like St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila also.

Saint Teresa of Avila DVD by Mary's Dowry Productions
Available on DVD
www.marysdowryproductions.co.uk

Our visuals over the years have become more creative, we try to incorporate local scenes and landmarks into the films and some of the saints we choose are very unknown but whose stories are remarkable and relevant today. 

Our films seek to offer a window into the lives of our saints so, 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.

 Our growing catalogue of DVDs and music CDs now numbers over 70 films which are all available online at

www.marysdowryproductions.org

and

www.marysdowryproductions.co.uk

 

A Valiant Woman - Saint Margaret Clitherow - reading for 25th March, Elizabethan, Catholic, Mother, executed 25 March 1586

A VALIANT WOMAN

Saint Margaret Clitherow, English Martyr, Recusant Catholic, Elizabethan, Mother, Saint.

 

 

Margaret Middleton married John Clitherow, butcher and grazier, a freeman of the city of York, in 1571, and shortly afterwards became a Catholic. During the following twelve years her house was a refuge for priests, whom she received at her own peril, and she brought up her children in the faith; her husband was not a Catholic, but seems not to have hampered his wife’s activities. For her persistent recusancy, Margaret was several times put in prison, even for two years together, but her sufferings only increased her fervour. “Were it not,” she said, “for my husband and children I would rather stay there always, apart from the world with God.” She was most attentive to the care of her house, witty, cheerful and good-looking, and her constancy and patience never failed. Her husband was later to say of her, “Let them take all I have and save her, for she is the best wife in all England, and the best Catholic.” She has, he said, only two faults, fasting too much and refusing to go to church.

On 10 March 1586 Mr Clitherow was summoned before the council at York, and in his absence his house was searched. The priest in hiding there escaped, but Margaret and her children were taken. Enraged at their failure, the searchers terrorized a Flemish boy of twelve years, staying in the house, till he showed them the priest’s room and where the church stuff was kept. At her trial, lest her children might be forced by evidence to be guilty of her blood, Margaret refused to plead, on the ground that she had committed no offence. At her second examination she again refused to plead, saying there was no evidence against her save that of children, whom you can make say anything by a stick or an apple. An Anglican clergyman who was present boldly protested to the bench against the iniquity of the proceedings.

The judge urged her to demand a jury, but in vain, and she was sentenced to be pressed to death, the ancient penalty for standing mute to a charge of felony. Margaret told the judge that, if this was his conscientious judgement, she prayed God to give him a better judgement in future. Forbidden to see husband or child, pestered by people who tried to shake her resolution, Margaret yet thanked God for all that was befalling her. The judge unwillingly issued an order for the execution on the following Friday (25th March 1586). Margaret had prepared herself by fasting and prayer; but she begged for a woman to be with her during the night, for, “though death is comfort,” she said, “the flesh is frail.” As no one could be admitted, the keeper’s wife sat with her for a while.

The first hours of the night Margaret passed on her knees in prayer, clothed in a linen habit made by herself for her passion. At three she laid herself flat on the stones for a quarter of an hour, then rested on her bed. At eight the sheriff and his officers came, and with them she walked barefoot, going along through the crowd to the Tolbooth. There, turning from those present, she knelt and prayed by herself. Then she laid herself on the ground clothed only in the linen habit, her face covered with a handkerchief, her hands outstretched and bound as if on a cross. The weighted door was laid on her; at the first crushing pain she cried, “Jesu, Jesu, Jesu have mercy on me,” and after a quarter of an hour passed to God. So died Saint Margaret Clitherow, of whom it was said that “everybody loved her.”

Reading from Mementoes of the Confessors and Martyrs of England and Wales by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory. (Imaged used in the post taken from the DVDs ‘Saint Margaret Clitherow’ and ‘The Shining Pearl of York’ by Mary’s Dowry Productions)

 

Our DVDs about Saint Margaret Clitherow are available worldwide, region free, from our online shop: www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

FIRST LOOK - Saint David of Wales - New DVD, St. David, Monk, Bishop, Founder, Catholic - Mary's Dowry Productions

FIRST LOOK

Saint David of Wales by Mary's Dowry Productions - NEW DVD

 

 

We will be making our new film about Saint David of Wales available from:

www.marysdowryproductions.org

this week, which offers a prayerful and spiritually uplifting look at the life and mission of one of our great British Saints.

 

The film runs for 25 minutes and is packed with historical information and facts in an atmosphere of devotion, making it both an interesting and prayerful encounter with Saint David.

Many of our films are used in schools and parishes as well as for family or private viewing.

 

All of our DVDs are available Region Free and ship worldwide.

 

Saint David of Wales will be available over the next few days from our online 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 original 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 the 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.

www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

 



LAST WORDS (2) - Blessed William Hart to the Oppressed Catholics of Elizabethan England - Reading for 13th March - English Martyr

LAST WORDS (2)

Blessed William Hart to the Oppressed Catholics of Elizabethan England

Reading for 13th March

 

 

"This is the first, the last, the only request I make, and have yet made or ever shall.

Fulfil these my desires, hear my voice, keep to my counsel.

But why do I, a miserable and unhappy sinner, beg of you that, in this age, most poisoned and most dangerous to the good, you should persevere firm and constant in your confession, where angels, archangels, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, the whole world beseech it, when the salvation of your souls and the good God Himself make the same entreaty, that you should remain firm in the faith you have once received and in your confession of the Truth?

May God of His infinite Mercy help you to do so, and I, your spiritual father, though weak and loaded with sins innumerable, will never cease to pray for you, both in this life and the next.

Wherefore I entreat you, in every way I can, to be mindful of me as often as you offer your devout prayers to God, lest I be like a melting candle, which giveth light to others and itself consumeth.

Again and againt farewell, my much desired ones. The servant of all and every one of you."

 

- Blessed William Hart - martyred 15th March 1583.

 

"Lest, perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway." - 1 Cor. 9, 27.

 

Reading for 13th March

The Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales

by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory

 

For DVDs about the English Martyrs:

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 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 and English Martyrs.





LAST WORDS (1) - Blessed William Hart (English Martyr) to the Oppressed Catholics - Hanged March 15th

LAST WORDS (1)

Reading for 12th March

Blessed William Hart to the Oppressed Catholics.

 

"Stand fast, brethren, stand steadfast, I say, in that faith which Christ planted, the apostles preached, the martyrs confirmed, the whole world approved and embraced.

Stand firm in that faith which, as it is the oldest, is also the truest and most sure, and which is most in harmony with the Holy Scriptures and with all antiquity.

Stand constant in that faith which has a worship worthy of all honour and reverence, Sacraments most holy, abounding in spiritual consolation.

For it ye have remained constant in this faith, that is, in the Catholic Church, the Ark of Noe, in the house of Rahab, with what joy and consolation of the soul will ye not be flooded: yours will be the Sacrament of Penance for the cleansing of your souls; yours the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Saviour for the refreshing of your souls; you will be partakers of all the satisfaction and merits of Christ, of the fellowship of the Saints, of the suffrages, prayers, fasts and almsdeeds of all the just whom the Catholic Church throughout the world holds in her bosom.

O blessed they, yea, and thrice blessed, who in this deplorable world stand firm in the faith of Christ."

 

-Blessed William Hart - English Martyr 15th March 1583.

 

 

 

"Your adversary the devil...goeth about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist ye strong in faith." - 1 Peter 5, 8-9

 

Reading from

The Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessor of England and Wales

by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory.

 

 

For films about the English Martyrs:

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NEW DVD release - Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Carmelite Dutch priest who gave a moving witness to Christ in Nazi occupied Holland

 

March 2016

 

New from Mary's Dowry Productions - Blessed Titus Brandsma - a 30 minute film of his life and powerful witness for the Catholic Church during Nazi occupied Holland in WW2.

In this film we take a spiritual and prayerful look at this Carmelite priest who spoke out against the evils of the Nazis and was eventually martyred at Dachau Concentration Camp.

We reflect upon some of his prayers and writings, especially some of those that were penned during his imprisonment.

We also look at the reasons why Blessed Titus Brandsma was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis and what his message and witness is to us today.

Blessed Titus Brandsma is the Patron Saint of Journalists.

 

This DVD is now available worldwide in all region formats from:

www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

 

Harbouring Priests - Saint Anne Line, Laywoman, Elizabethan English Martyr - Commemorated on 27th February

HARBOURING PRIESTS
Saint Anne Line - Laywoman - 27th February

Saint Anne Line prepares a secret Mass room.
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

Mrs Line was the widow of a Hampshire gentleman who was exiled for his religion; she suffered continuous ill-health, but her soul was strong. Her desire was to win the palm of martyrdom, and she feared she would be deprived of it, as very few women had then suffered.

 

Roger Line, Saint Anne's husband, imprisoned and exiled for the Catholic Faith
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

The assurance of a former confessor of hers, William Thomson, himself a martyr, and a vision she had of Our Lord carrying His cross, encouraged her to hope that her desire would be obtained, and she was not deceived. On Candlemas day 1601, her house was beset by pursuviants at the very time Mass was beginning; but as the doors were strongly barred the priest, Father Page, managed to escape, and the house was searched in vain.

 

Father Page begins his escape
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions



Mrs Line, however, was arrested and carried in a chair to the Old Bailey, for she was too weak to walk, and there sentenced to be hanged.

 

Saint Anne Line in prison
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

At Tyburn she declared:

"I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far am I from repenting that I wish I could have entertained a thousand."

She suffered on 27th February 1601, just before the priests Barkworth and Filcock, and the former blessed her dead body, kissing her clothing and her hand, and saying they would quickly follow her.

 

Father Barkworth
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

"He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive the reward of a prophet." - Matt. 10, 41.

 

Reading for 27th February

Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales

by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory.

 

Our film about Saint Anne Line is available through:

www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

 

Saint Anne Line:

A very atmospheric film that draws you into the heart and mind of a young Elizabethan woman with a deep love of the Mass and her fellow people.  The interesting visuals capture life in that Era but in a contemporary style, showing the beauty of the faith, fellowship and love that breaches the boundaries of time. 

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 inspiring Elizabethan Englishwoman.

Length and Format:

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



Willing Sacrifices - St Robert Southwell on his Fellow Catholics (1) - Reading for 22nd February

WILLING SACRIFICES

Saint Robert Southwell on his Fellow Catholics (1) - Feast Day 21st February

 

 

Saint Robert Southwell thus described the condition of his fellow Catholics, clergy and laity:

"As yet we are alive and well, being unworthy, it seems, of prisons. We have oftener sent than received letters from your parts, though they are not sent without difficulty, and some we know have been lost. The condition of Catholic recusants here is the same as usual, deplorable and full of fears and dangers, more especially since our adversaries have looked for wars. As many of ours are in chains rejoice and are comforted in their prisons; and they that are at liberty set not their hearts upon it nor expect it to be of long continuance.

All, by the great goodness and mercy of God, arm themselves to suffer anything that can come, how hard soever it may be, as it shall please our Lord, for whose greater glory and the salvation of their souls they are more concerned than for any temporal losses. A little while ago they apprehended two priests, who have suffered such cruel usages in the prison of Bridewell as can scarce be believed. What was given them to eat was so little in quantity, and withal most filthy and nauseous."

 

 

 

"Then, said I, Behold I come...to do thy will, O my God." - Ps. 39, 7-9.

 

Reading for 22nd February from the Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory.

 

 

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 young and holy priest.



Blessed Francisco Marto - a DVD of his life by Mary's Dowry Productions - Feast day 20th February

In 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions filmed some original prayerful scenes for a spiritual and prayerful 30 minute film especially about Blessed Francisco Marto.

 

Below are several screenshots from our film.

 

 Blessed Francisco Marto prayed many rosaries. In our film we reflect prayerfully upon Our Lady's request that we pray the rosary every day.

  

Actual photograph of Lucia, Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta of Fatima which features in our film.

Blessed Francisco would pray for many hours, prostrating himself in reverence before God and repeating the prayers taught to him by the Angel of Peace

Blessed Francisco saw Our Lady of Fatima but was unable to hear what she said during the visions.

 

Blessed Francisco was portrayed in our film by a young boy from our parish of English Martyrs.

His portrayal is a prayerful and absorbing visual of Blessed Francisco at prayer, in thought and living the message of Our Lady of Fatima. 

 

 Blessed Francisco was often enraptured by the thought of the Light of God.

While he was in prison, Blessed Francisco knelt to pray the rosary. In the screenshot above he is telling the man, a fellow prisoner, to remove his hat before he prays.

 



Blessed Francisco spent many long hours before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

He often longed to console Our Lord.

In the screenshot above we used the Blessed Sacrament chapel in our parish church for these scenes.

 

 Before he died, Blessed Francisco made his first confession and First Holy Communion.

He died peacefully as a young boy with a smile on his face.

 

Above is a screenshot from our film which shows the tomb of Blessed Francisco in Fatima.

 

Blessed Francisco left us a beautiful witness of prayer and love of God.

Our film is available on DVD through:

www.marysdowryproductions.org



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.

 

Screenshots from our 'Mary's Dowry Presents' advert on EWTN
© 2011 Mary's Dowry Productions

 

 

For films about the English Martyrs:

www.marysdowryproductions.org 

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
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
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
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Philomena' DVD

Length and Format:

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

www.marysdowryproductions.org

We ship worldwide in all region formats.

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
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD

Saint Helen
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD

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

 

www.marysdowryproductions.org

 

We ship in all region formats around the world

Screenshot from 'Saint Helen and the True Cross' DVD
© 2014 Mary's Dowry Productions



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
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
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
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
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.

www.marysdowryproductions.org