Blesseds John Amias and Robert Dalby

In the history of Dr. Champney we read: “This year on March 16, John Amias and Robert Dalby, priests of the College of Douai, suffered in York as in cases of high treason, for no other cause but that they were priests ordained by the authority of the See of Rome, and had returned into England and exercised there their priestly functions for the benefit of the souls of their neighbors.  I was myself an eye-witness of the glorious combat of these holy men, being at that time a young man the twentieth year of my age; and I returned home confirmed by the sight of their constancy and meekness in the Catholic faith, which by God’s grace I then followed. For there visibly appeared in those holy servants of God so much meekness, joined with singular constancy, that you would easily say that they were lambs led to the slaughter.” Their feast is kept on March 16.