Saint of the day - St Margaret Clitherow

Catholic Exchange has an article about St Margaret Clitherow.

It would be a great blessing if her prayers and the rememberance of her courage in the face of a cruel and lingering death could inspire the Catholic Church in the UK, so that it became what it should be.

General Fieldorf Nil: Ryszard Bugajski's Film

With some friends, I watched the film of  the betrayal, interrogation, torture, and execution of the Polish hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, General Fieldorf last weekend.

Having fought the Germans on the streets of Warsaw while the Red Army waited east of the Vistula as the Germans destroyed the city, he was hunted down and arrested by the agents of the Soviet puppet government of Bolesław Bierut, on the grounds that he was a fascist.

He was judicially murdered in 1953.

The story can be read in Norman Davies's "Rising '44",  and I thoroughly recommend the Film, and of course the book.

More than half of us, men and women, were in tears by the end.