A Book of English Martyrs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Book of English Martyrs, credited to E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Book of English Martyrs by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. Read in English by John; Michael Curran; Kristine Wales; KevinS; JeffE; DJRickyV; swiftsjourney This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in the troubled days of the sixteenth century, when Tyburn tree was a concrete fact, and when ardent love hurled the defiance, "Come rack! Come rope!" Martyrs lay and cleric are here commemorated. The Carthusians, Houghton, Lawrence, Webster; the Jesuits, Campion, Sherwin, Southwell; the secular priests, Hart, Lacey, Ingleby; the countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; the Chancellor of England Blessed Thomas More, Philip Earl of Arundel, and Margaret Clitherow, harborer of priests. Their stories are told whenever possible in the words of records of the time (Summary from America Magazine, Volume 14, 1916)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Book of English Martyrs
• Author credits: E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 6:38:01

Catalogue topics

• Catholic
• england
• saint
• henry viii
• martyrs
• imprimatur
• nihil obstat
• thomas more

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Author's Note — 9:58
2. 01 - The Road to Tyburn — 25:59
3. 02 - ''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1 — 27:01
4. 03 - ''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 2 — 21:55
5. 04 - The English Terror — 22:11
6. 05 - Papists and Heretics — 22:07
7. 06 - The Northern Rising and Its Effects — 19:31
8. 07 - The Excommunication — 25:24
9. 08 - Increase in Persecution — 18:23
10. 09 - The First-fruits of the Jesuit Mission — 48:47
11. 10 - Blessed Ralph Sherwin — 13:37
12. 11 - The York Martyrs — 23:56
13. 12 - A Group of Lay Martyrs — 32:02
14. 13 - The Martyrs of 1588 — 25:22
15. 14 - Philip, Earl of Arundel — 15:52
16. 15 - ''Come Rack, come Rope!'' — 20:00
17. 16 - Strength in Weakness — 25:56

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