Dr. Joseph Shaw (read our interview with him here) has a report and pictures up about this past weekend’s procession through the streets of Oxford following “the route taken by the four martyrs of 1589 – the seminary priests Richard Yaxley and George Nichols, their gentleman helper Thomas Belson, and a Catholic inn servant, Humphrey Prichard – from the Bocardo prison in Cornmarket to the town gallows where thy were hanged, drawn and quartered.” Follow the links for the full report and pictures.

No prison in Cornmarket today, but there is a KFC! I’ll avoid embarrassment by refusing to admit that I dined in that fine establishment on more than one occasion….

Oh, and the picture I grabbed from the Oxford LMS blog was also chosen because it prominently features this blog’s favorite Domini canis studying at Oxford. Nice hat!