“I take it for a great favor from Almighty God that I am placed among the thieves, as he himself, my Lord and master, was.”
Blessed James Duckett’s reaction after a jury sentenced him to death for being a Catholic and distributing Catholic literature.
England was an awful place back then.
No First Amendment in those days.
Blessed James Duckett was born into a Protestant family but converted when he read a book on Catholic Faith. His capital crime was possessing Catholic literature in his shop and passing it along. It is thought that a Fr.John Duckett was his grandson who was martyred at Tyburn 10 years later..