Latin Mass Society Oxford Pilgrimage Saturday 29th October 2016 In honour of the Catholic Martyrs of Oxford, visiting the site of the martyrdoms of Bl Thomas Belson & his companions 11am Solemn Mass in the Dominican Rite, in Blackfriars, St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LY 2pm Procession to the site of the martyr- dom 3pm Benediction Bl George Nichols and Bl. Richard Yaxley were both secular priests, who had been trained at Rheims. Nichols had studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and became famous as the priest who was smuggled in to Oxford Castle to reconcile a highwayman to the Church on the eve of the latter’s execution. Bl. Thomas Belson was a layman, a member of a Catholic land-owning family based in Ixhill, over the county border in Buckinghamshire; Bl Humphrey Prichard was a Welshman, an employee of the Catherine Wheel Inn, which was situated on the corner of Broad Street and Magdalen Street (where part of Balliol College now stands) opposite the church of St Mary Magdalene. The four were captured in the Catherine Wheel, taken to London to be tortured, and tried and executed in Oxford. The place of execution was the Town Gallows, out- side the corner of the town walls still preserved in New College, approximately where 100 Holywell Street now stands, which is marked by a plaque in their honour. Local Representative: Joseph Shaw, 2 Vermont Drive, Woodstock OX20 1YA [email protected]; www.oxfordlmsrep.blogspot.com In 2008, during the LMS Pilgrimage, Bishop William Kenney blessed a new plaque marking the site of the martyrdoms of 1589, on behalf of Archbishop Vincent Nichols. The church of Blackfriars is the Priory Church of the Oxford Dominican community in Oxford, located on the West side of St Giles. There is limited stay parking in St Giles and Wellington Square (2 hrs), and car parks in Gloucester Green, Worcester Street and Westgate. .