A Vatican cardinal has urged English Catholics to pray for the eventual canonisation of the martyrs of the Protestant Reformation.
Cardinal Arthur Roche called for prayers for the canonisation of Blessed Nicholas Postgate in a homily at the 50th annual Postgate Rally at Ugthorpe, near Whitby, Yorkshire.
Despite intermittent rain, more than 700 people gathered in a field for the Mass, with coaches coming from Hull, York, Middlesbrough and Redcar and many more travelling by car.
Blessed Nicholas ministered on the North York Moors for nearly half a century before he was hanged, drawn and quartered on the Knavesmire gallows, York, in 1679, when he was 82.
