Memory of England's martyrs lives strong in Rome

“O English hearts what heart can know, how spent with labour long ago, was England’s Church that bore you?”

(PerMariam) — At the start of December every year in Rome, English seminarians unite themselves to their martyred predecessors as they celebrate the feast of the young priests who died for the Catholic faith in their homeland.

Imagine a group of young men so enamored with love of God that when they hear news of the torture and death of one of their compa…