This wonderful Feast of All Saints brings me in gratitude to the example of one particular group – our own Douai Martyrs. Their example has repercussions for Catholics to this very day, in fact more so than ever.
St John Southworth turns out to have been one of my unknown unknowns. I didn’t know that when I met him some seismic shift would be set off in my understanding of history, politics and the Catholic Church. But bumping into him, as I did one afternoon in Westminster Cathedral, turned out to be a catalyst in the adventure that was to become my conversion.
