Saturday 27 February 2010

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.

Monday 22 February 2010

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

Thursday 11 February 2010

Saint Anne Line Film, English Martyr, as seen on EWTN, Catholic priests, safe houses, hanged at Tyburn, London, Mass


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.
www.marysdowryproductions.org/shop/

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

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Saint Nicholas Owen Film, Mary's Dowry Productions, Jesuits, secret rooms, priest holes, illusionists, contemplative, Catholic, DVD, EWTN


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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Saturday 6 February 2010

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.