Saint Anne Line Film

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 was a young Elizabethan woman with a spirit of joy and love for God and those around her. She longed to serve the Catholic Church and especially priests during the troubled days of Elizabethan England.

 

Saint Anne Line at prayer in one of the Safe Houses that
she cared for
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

In 2010, Mary's Dowry Productions carefully produced visuals to run silently beneath the narrative of Saint Anne Line's story. These visuals were filmed at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester and on especially built sets in the barn next to our parish church.

 

Saint Anne Line arrives at a Safe House
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

The film is a prayerful journey with Saint Anne Line who tells us her story.

 

'Saint Anne Line' by Mary's Dowry Productions is available through our online shop:

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The notorious Richard Topcliffe - Queen Elizabeth's 'interrogator'

Richard Topcliffe, infamous hater of priests, torturer of many historical figures known and lesser known such as Jesuit Robert Southwell, John Gerard and Henry Garnet, Swithun Wells, Edmund Gennings and Polydore Plasden. 
Richard Topcliffe features in many films about the lives of the English Martyrs especially 28 year old priest Polydore Plasden who was tortured and eventually hanged at the infamous triple Tyburn tree despite the attempted intervention of Sir Walter Raleigh. He also hunted poet and priest St. Robert Southwell with a grim determination to see the young man executed for his missionary spirit.

Screenshot from our 2015 film about Saint Robert Southwell
Showing Richard Topcliff in the Tower of London
© Mary's Dowry Productions 2015

"A veteran in evil".

Richard Topcliffe also interrogated Ben Jonson in August 1597 in investigations into Jonson's suppressed play, The Isle of Dogs

Mary's Dowry Productions is a Catholic film production apostolate based in England. 
Selected films have been broadcast on SKY, BBC1 and EWTN. 
Many films featuring Topcliff are available on DVD through
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In our films Queen Elizabeth's priest hunter, who oversaw the executions of the above Martyrs, as well as many others, is covered well.

 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 our Saints and Martyrs.

Richard Topcliffe on Wikipedia:

Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – 1604) was a landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He became notorious as a priest-hunter and torturer and was often referred to as the Queen's principal "interrogator".

Topcliffe entered the service of the Queen's secretary, William Cecil in the 1570s, and worked for Sir Francis Walsingham and the Privy Council. However, he regarded his authority as deriving directly from the Queen.

Topcliffe was a fanatical persecutor of Catholics and the Catholic Church, and was involved in the interrogation and torture of many priests and laity, at a time when all Catholics were accused of actively seeking to overthrow the ruling Anglican establishment of England in order to return England to Catholicism.

Richard Topcliffe during the trial of St Robert Southwell
Screenshot from our film 'St. Robert Southwell'
© Mary's Dowry Productions 2015

Topcliffe gained a reputation as a sadistic torturer who frequently played mind games with prisoners under interrogation. He claimed that his own instruments and methods were better than the official ones, and was authorized to create a torture chamber in his home in London. He also involved himself directly in the execution of sentences of death upon Catholic recusants, which involved hanging, drawing and quartering.

Topcliffe arrested Polydore Plasden and Edmund Gennings during a secret Mass at St. Swithun Wells' house in Gray's Inn Lane. On the day of their execution, Richard Topcliffe rode first to the gallows especially erected outside Swithun's house, where he was so enraged by the 24 year old Fr. Edmund Gennings that he had the ladder turned quickly so that Gennings hung and then ordered the executioner to cut him down not a moment later so that when the executioner cut out Gennings' heart, Edmund was still alive.

 Swithun was cheerful as he stepped up to die for his faith and told Topcliffe to hurry up and that he should be ashamed to keep an old man waiting in his shirt in the cold. Topcliffe waited until he had seen Swithun hanged and then rode fast to Tyburn where Eustace White and Polydore were to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

 

Sir Walter Raleigh insisted that Polydore Plasden hang until he was dead before he was disembowelled, but Eustace suffered the same fate as Edmund Gennings and was alive when they disembowelled him.

 

These Martyrs dealt face to face with a great persecutor of Catholicism in Elizabethan England and showed great courage and determination to the very end.

 

 

 

Individual films on these Martyrs are now available through Mary's Dowry Productions
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Our films seek to offer a spiritual encounter with our Saints and Martyrs in the context of history and faith.

 

NEW St. Anne Line film

From Mary's Dowry Productions, a new film on St. Anne Line, English Catholic Martyr, who was hanged at Tyburn in 1601 for hiding a Catholic priest. 

Visit our website for more information and to buy this DVD available in all Region Formats

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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.

Saint Anne Line prepares a room in a Safe House for Mass.
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions

 

Our film is told in Saint Anne Line's own words, taking us on a journey of faith, hope and joy as she gave her time to prayer and in service of the Catholic Church in Elizabethan England.

Saint Anne Line was raised as a Calvanist. When she and her brother converted to the Catholic Faith they were disowned by her father. She found a kindred spirit in Catholic Roger Line whom she married. Upon her journey, Saint Anne and Roger were separated when Roger was arrested for attending an outlawed Mass. He was exiled and he and Anne never saw one another again in this world.

 

Recusant Catholic Roger Line, husband of Saint Anne Line
© 2010 Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'St. Anne Line'

 Saint Anne Line continued to share the Faith with those around her, bringing joy and a spirit of prayer to many. She looked after Safe Houses where priests could shelter during the troubled days of Elizabethan England. Her story is one of hope and love.

 

 

Father Mark Barkworth praises Saint Anne Line as they await
execution at Tyburn, London.
© Mary's Dowry Productions
Screenshot from 'St. Anne Line'



Our film about Saint Anne Line is available on DVD through:

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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
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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.
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.
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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.

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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:

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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, .

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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

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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 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:
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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.
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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
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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.)

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